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dinabaw

January 29th, 2007, 02:43 PM

Today is: Jan 29, 2007
A Glance at USM

The University of Southern Mindanao (USM) is a premier land grant university in Southern Philippines. Formerly known as the Mindanao Institute of Technology (MIT), the USM was founded by the late Bai Hadja Fatima Matabay Plang, a dedicated Muslim educator and philanthropist. Formally starting its operations on October 1, 1954, the USM achieved its university status through P.D. 1312 on March 13, 1978.

USM is one of the four leading state universities in the country that achieved excellence in agricultural education. Today, it is one of the nine among 120 or so state-owned universities and colleges (SUCs) that earned Level IV status. In the first half of 2005, it was rated very satisfactory by the Department of Budget and Management Regional Office XII using the same instrument as that used in the level accreditation process.

USM has a total of 5, 129.97 hectares: Kabacan main campus has 1, 024 hectares; Arakan Valley campus, 4,091 hectares; and USM-Kidapawan City Campus, 14.97 hectares. Most of its land is used for agricultural projects.

For five decades now, USM has produced marketable graduates who have distinguished themselves with these marks: leadership, industry, and dedication to work. Until today, the university continues to instill the value of academic excellence and hard work among its students.

The University maintains an enviable track record of producing topnotchers and passers of various board examinations. It has gained international reputation in educating the youths that excel in skills competitions and in motivating its faculty and staff to lead in various fields of research. Ever pioneering and adventurous, USM will continue to provide educational leadership not only in the region but also nationwide. Innovative, research-driven, flexible, relevant, and very entrepreneurial----that’s USM at the age of 50 and beyond.
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History
The USM main campus used to be a rubber plantation owned and managed by a Scott named Mr. Fleming, who was granted an area of 1, 024 hectares in 1909. The ownership changed hands several times until the Japanese occupation, when it came under the control of Ohta Development Company. After the Americans defeated the Japanese in 1944, this compound was taken over by the United States government until it was transferred to the Philippine government in 1947. It was not until the 1950’s that a respected Maguindanao princess, Bai Matabay Plang, started the move to establish the Mindanao Institute of Technology (MIT) with the rubber plantation areas as the proposed location. She was supported in this venture by Datu Udtog Matalam, the governor then of the Empire Province of Cotabato, together with Congressman and later House Speaker Salipada Pendatun of the same Province.

With President Elipidio Quirino’s signing on June 20, 1952 the R.A 763, the law creating the MIT, Bai Matabay Plang became more inspired to establish a state college in Southern Mindanao. On June 10, 1954, Pres. Ramon Magsaysay signed the Republic Act No. 998 the enabling act for the establishment and subsequent operation for MIT which got initial allocation of P 200, 000 for the school’s operation.

On March 13, 1978, President Ferdinand E. Marcos signed the Presidential Decree No. 1312 which converted the MIT into a University with Dr. Jaman S. Imlan as the first University President. As University, the USM functions were mandated to have a trilogy of functions: instruction, research, and extension. The three functions later expanded to four (instruction, research, extension, and resource generation).

Vision

Quality and relevant education for its clientele to be globally competitive, culture-sensitive and morally responsive human resources for sustainable development.

Mission
Help accelerate socio-economic development, promote harmony among diverse communities, and improve quality of life through instruction, research, extension and resource generation in Southern Philippines.

Objectives:

1. To provide programs of instruction and professional trainings primarily in the fields of science and technology, especially in agriculture and industrial fields;

2. To promote advanced studies, research, and extension services and progressive leadership in all fields of agriculture including agribusiness, foods and nutrition, fishery, forestry, animal and veterinary sciences, engineering, industrial education, and other courses needed in the socio-economic development of Mindanao;

3. To develop courses at the graduate level responsive to the manpower needs of development-oriented agencies in the region; and

4. To provide non-formal education and undertake various extension programs in food production, nutrition, trades and industries, engineering, health and sports development; and to offer scholarship and/or part time job opportunities to the socio-economically deprived but deserving students.
Four-Fold Functions

Instruction

As the University’s major function, instruction is carried out by almost 500 faculty members most of whom have either a master’s or doctoral degree and hold professional ranks. Instruction is provided for tertiary and advanced education levels which offer a variety of courses and fields of specialization. In addition, the University maintains laboratory schools for elementary and high school for its teacher education degrees
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Research

To compliment institution, research comes as another major function of the University. Research activities are mostly carried out by its research arms: the University of Southern Mindanao Agricultural Research Center (USMARC) and the Philippine Industrial Crops Research Institute (PICRI). USMARC is the national research center for corn, sorghum, and fruit crops; the regional center for rice and other cereals, livestock and farming systems, water resources, applied rural sociology, cutflowers, and ornamental plants; and a cooperating station for coconut and vegetable crops. PICRI, on the other hand, is the national research institute for rubber, fiber crops, coffee, spices, cacao, and other industrial crops. Attached to PICRI is the Philippine Rubber Testing Center (PRTC), a testing center for dried natural rubber. USM also hosts two organized bodies which do research and development activities: the Cotabato Agricultural and Resources Research and Development Consortium (CARRDEC), a research consortium of various agencies in Central Mindanao and the Philippine Carabao Center (PCC), a member of the national PCC network.
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Extension

Coordinated by the University’s Extension Office, extension work is carried out by the different colleges and research units either on their own or in collaboration with other government agencies as well as private organizations. Provision of extension service takes the form of trainings on various subject areas for different clientele groups most of whom are farmers, technical assistance to various sectors, social laboratory projects, demonstration farms, consultancy services and public education through personal contacts and the mass media: radio, print, and video.

Resource Generation

Effectively operated and managed, the University’s resource generation program generates a sizeable income to augment the operating fund of the University and to serve as laboratory for horticulture, animal science, agronomy, and agribusiness majors. Among its projects are: rice, corn; buffalo, cattle and sheep; swine; poultry; durian, lanzones, mango, calamansi and other citrus fruits, coconut, banana, marang, guyabano, rambutan, and pineapple, to name some. The USM is noted for its OPV corn seeds and quality grafted/budded seedlings of various fruit and plantation crops.

http://www.usm.edu.ph/admission.html

Rajah_Soliman

January 29th, 2007, 02:50 PM

:banana: :banana: naks! showbizz! so parang tinatanggi niya oh na may kakilala ako dati na cum laude from UP who doesn't have a proper work..what a pride baby!:cheers: :nuts: :nuts: :nuts: :lol: :lol:

common rheee.... let's talk of ideas here not of people..... :cheers:

teka nga pala, hindi mo pa nirereveal, saang state uni ka graduate?
i'll go jogging first pagbalik ko dapat may sagot na ha... :)

kiretoce

January 29th, 2007, 02:51 PM

New thread (http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?p=11529906#post11529906). :colgate:

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Sinjin P.

January 29th, 2007, 03:09 PM

Thank goodness it's over :D

Sinjin P.

April 7th, 2007, 03:10 AM

Now keep it clean! ;)

PARTIAL LIST OF COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES IN THE PHILIPPINES

A

* Adamson University
* Adventist University of the Philippines
* Airlink International Aviation School
* AMA Computer University
* Angeles University Foundation
* Angelicum College
* Aquinas University of Legazpi
* Araullo University-PHINMA Education Network
* Arellano University
* Asian College of Technology - Cebu
* Asia Pacific College
* Asia Pacific College of Advanced Studies
* Ateneo de Davao University
* Ateneo de Manila University
* Ateneo de Naga University
* Ateneo de Zamboanga University

B

* Bataan State College
* Bataan State Polytechnic College
* Batangas State University
* Benguet State University
* Bicol University
* Bohol Institute of Technology
* Bulacan State University
* Bulacan Agricultural State College
* Bukidnon State College

C

* Capitol University
* Cagayan de Oro College-PHINMA Education Network
* Cagayan State University
* Catanduanes State Colleges
* Cebu Institute of Medicine
* Cebu Normal University
* Central Colleges of the Philippines
* Central Mindanao University
* Central Philippine University
* Centro Escolar University
o Centro Escolar University - Malolos
o Centro Escolar University - Makati
* Chinese General Hospital College of Nursing and Liberal Arts
* Christ the king College - Gingoog City
* Claret Formation Center
* Colegio de San Juan de Letran
o Colegio de San Juan de Letran - Abucay
o Colegio de San Juan de Letran - Calamba
* Colegio de San Lorenzo
* Centre for International Education
* Cavite State University
* Chiang Kai Shek College

D

* Don Mariano Marcos State University
* De La Salle Philippines
o Andres Soriano Memorial College (La Salle)
o De La Salle Araneta University
o De La Salle-Canlubang
o De La Salle-College of Saint Benilde
o De La Salle-Health Sciences Campus
o De La Salle Lipa
o De La Salle-Professional Schools, Inc.
o De La Salle University-Manila
o De La Salle University-Dasmariñas
o La Salle College Antipolo
o La Salle University-Ozamiz
o John Bosco College (La Salle)
o University of St. La Salle
* Divine Word College of Bangued
* Divine Word College of Calapan
* Divine Word College of Laoag
* Divine Word College of Legazpi
* Divine Word College of San Jose
* Divine Word College of Urdaneta
* Divine Word College of Vigan
* Divine Word College Seminary
* Divine Word Mission Seminary
* Divine Word University of Tacloban
* Don Bosco School, Manila
* Don Bosco Technical College
* Don Bosco Technical Institute, Tarlac
* Don Bosco Technical Institute, Victorias

E

* Easter College, Inc.
* Eastern Visayas State University - Tacloban City
* Emilio Aguinaldo College
* Eulogio "Amang" Rodriguez Institute of Science and Technology (EARIST)
o Eulogio Amang Rodrigues Institute of Science and Technology - Cavite Campus

F

* Far Eastern University in the City of Manila
o Far Eastern University - East Asia College
o Far Eastern University - Nicanor Reyes Educational Foundation
o Far Eastern University - Nicanor Reyes Medical Foundation
* FEATI University
* Filamer Christian College, Roxas City, Capiz
* Fr. Saturnino Urios University

H

* Holy Angel University
* Holy Name University formerly Divine Word College of Tagbilaran
* Hercor College

I

* Iligan Medical Center College

* Informatics International College
o Informatics International College - Eastwood
o Informatics International College - Alabang
o Informatics International College - NorthGate
o Informatics International College - University Belt
o Informatics - Ayala
o Informatics - Makati
o Informatics - Ortigas
o Informatics - Greenhills
o Informatics - Manila
o Informatics - Cebu
o Informatics - Davao
o Informatics - Baguio
o Informatics - Valenzuela

J

* Jose Rizal University

K

* Kalayaan College
* KCI Colleges

L

* La Consolacion College Caloocan
* Leyte Institute of Technology
* Leyte Normal University
* Leyte State University
* Liceo de Cagayan University
* Lorma College
* Lyceum of Alabang
* Lyceum of Batangas
* Lyceum of the Philippines University

M

* Manila Central University
* Manila Doctors College
* Manuel L. Quezon University
* Mapua Institute of Technology
* Mariano Marcos State University
* Mary Chiles College of Nursing
* Mary Jhonston College of Nursing
* Metropolitan Hospital College of Nursing
* Metro Business College (Formerly Metro Data Computer College)
* Mindanao Polytechnic State College
* Mindanao State University
o Mindanao State University-General Santos
o Mindanao State University-Sulu
o Mindanao State University-Maguindanao
o Mindanao State University-Naawan
o Mindanao State University-Tawi-Tawi
* Mindanao State University-Iligan Institute of Technology
* Miriam College
* Mondriaan Aura College

N

* National University (Philippines)
* New Era University
* Nueva Ecija University of Science and Technology
* Northern Mindanao State Institute of Science and Technology
* Northern Samar Colleges
* Northwestern University
* Notre Dame of Dadiangas University

O

* Our Lady of Fatima University
o Our Lady of Fatima University-Valenzuela City
o Our Lady of Fatima University-Quezon City

P

* Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Maynila
o Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Maynila, Main Campus
o Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Maynila, District Colleges
o Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Maynila, Open University
* PATTS College of Aeronautics
* Philippine Christian University
* Philippine Merchant Marine Academy
* Philippine Normal University
* Philippine School of Business Administration
* Philippine Women's University
* Philippine Women's College
* PMI Colleges Bohol
* Polytechnic University of the Philippines
o Polytechnic University of the Philippines, Manila (Main Campus)
o Polytechnic University of the Philippines, Bataan
o Polytechnic University of the Philippines, Taguig
o Polytechnic University of the Philippines, Santa Maria
o Polytechnic University of the Philippines, Commonwealth
o Polytechnic University of the Philippines, Lopez
o Polytechnic University of the Philippines, Mulanay
o Polytechnic University of the Philippines, Unisan
o Polytechnic University of the Philippines, Santa Rosa
o Polytechnic University of the Philippines, San Pedro
o Polytechnic University of the Philippines, Santo Tomas
o Polytechnic University of the Philippines, Maragondon
o Polytechnic University of the Philippines, Ragay
o Polytechnic University of the Philippines, Open University
o Polytechnic University of the Philippines, Technopreneurial School (Lepanto)
* Philippine College Of Health and Sciences
* PMMS-Las Pinas City

R

* Republic Central Colleges Angeles City
* Remedios T. Romualdez Memorial Schools-Makati Medical Center
* Rizal Technological University
* Rogationist College, Cavite
* Roosevelt College System
o Roosevelt College Cainta-Main Campus
o Roosevelt College Cubao
o Roosevelt College Marikina
o Roosevelt College Quirino
o Roosevelt College Rodriguez
o Roosevelt College San Juan
o Roosevelt College San Mateo

S

* San Beda College System:
o San Beda College-Mendiola
o San Beda College-Alabang
o San Beda College-Rizal
o San Beda Graduate Schools
* San Sebastian College - Recoletos
* Saint John Colleges, Calamba City
* Saint Jude College
* Saint Louis University, Baguio City
* Silliman University
o Silliman University College of Medicine
* St. Michael's College of Iligan City
* St. Paul University Iloilo
* St. Paul University Manila
* St. Paul University Philippines
* St. Paul University Surigao
* St. Peter's College of Toril
* St. Scholastica's College
* Systems Plus College Foundation
o Systems Plus Computer College-Cubao Pag-aari ni Venson
o Systems Plus Computer College-Kalookan
o Systems Plus Computer College-San Fernando
o Systems Plus Computer College-Miranda, Angeles

T

* Technological Institute of the Philippines
* Technological University of the Philippines
* Tomas del Rosario College
* Tyrone Valera University

U

* Union Christian College
* Universal College of Nursing
* University of Asia and the Pacific
* University of Bohol
* University of the Cordilleras
* Universidad de Manila
* Universidad de Zamboanga
* University of Baguio
* University of Eastern Philippines
o University of Eastern Philippines - Main Campus, Catarman, Northern Samar
o University of Eastern Philippines - Catubig, Northern Samar
o University of Eastern Philippines - Laoang, Northern Samar
o University of Eastern Philippines - Allen, Northern Samar
o University of Eastern Philippines - Biri, Northern Samar
o University of Eastern Philippines - Pinabacdao, Western Samar
o University of Eastern Philippines - Oras, Eastern Samar
* University of the Assumption
* University of the East
o University of the East Caloocan
o University of the East Ramon Magsaysay Memorial Medical Center
* University of Gheelh
* University of Manila
* University of Makati
* University of Mindanao
* University of Perpetual Help System DALTA
* University of the Philippines
o University of the Philippines Baguio
o University of the Philippines, Diliman
o University of the Philippines, Los Baños
o University of the Philippines, Manila
o University of the Philippines, Mindanao
o University of the Philippines in the Visayas
+ University of the Philippines, Visayas Cebu
+ University of the Philippines, Visayas Iloilo
+ University of the Philippines, Visayas Miag-ao
+ University of the Philippines, Visayas Tacloban
o University of the Philippines, Open University
* University of the Immaculate Conception
* University of Rizal System,formerly-R.P.C.
* University of San Agustin
* University of San Carlos
* University of Santo Tomas
* University of Southeastern Philippines
* University of Southern Mindanao
* University of the Cordilleras (former Baguio Colleges Foundation)

V

* Velez College

W

* West Visayas State University
* Western Mindanao State University
o Western Mindanao State University-Bayog
o Western Mindanao State University-Pagadian
o Western Mindanao State University-Molave
o Western Mindanao State University-Dumingag
o Western Mindanao State University-Malangas

X

* Xavier University (also known as Ateneo de Cagayan)

kiretoce

April 7th, 2007, 03:43 AM

^^ Partial list? Where's the whole list? :dunno:

Glad to see my parents' alma mater listed there. :colgate:

(Mods, please transfer the photos from the previous closed T5 thread and put it here, it's a shame to lose them. Thanks!) :okay:

WawaY[625]

April 7th, 2007, 04:09 AM

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Mithril Cloud

April 7th, 2007, 05:55 AM

De La Salle University-Manila
http://www.dlsu.edu.ph

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De La Salle University-Manila is an internationally recognized Catholic university established by the Brothers of the Christian Schools in 1911.

Inspired by the charism of St. John Baptist de La Salle, the University harmonizes faith and life with contemporary knowledge to nurture a community of distinguished and morally upright scholars who generate and propagate new knowledge for human development and social transformation.

As a resource of Church and Nation, the institution endeavors to form Lasallian Achievers for God and Country who will lead in building a just, peaceful, stable and progressive Filipino nation.

Guided by this Vision, the University will become a leading research university in Southeast Asia. With its corps of eminent faculty ably supported by visionary leaders and technology-enabled professional services, the institution will offer excellent multidisciplinary programs and build a community of learners and scholars who value the pursuit of new knowledge within the perspective of Christian ideals and values.

In an academic environment permeated by excellence and scholarship, the institution will train leaders, competent professionals, scholars, researchers and entrepreneurs, who will participate actively in improving the quality of life in Philippine society.

Today, the University believes the Christian man and woman will provide needed leadership in the development of the Philippines. The school seeks to develop this leadership quality in its students through a liberal Christian education. Its commitment to this kind of education is based on a belief in the importance of Christian values and in the development in its students a concern for the country's social and economic problems.

The University has placed much emphasis on the formation of various consortium agreements with other major universities in the country. These consortia have made possible exchange programs for students and faculty, and the sharing of specializations uniq ue to individual schools. De La Salle has consortium agreements with schools in Metropolitan Manila, including St. Scholastica's College, Philippine Christian University, St. Paul College of Manila, Philippine Normal University, Ateneo de Manila University, and the University of the Philippines.

As a result, De La Salle students and faculty may enjoy not only the use of facilities of these schools but also the opportunity to work with their counterparts in the consortia. These interscholastic arrangements also provide peer interaction that con tributes to the development of students' ability to relate to people of diverse interests and backgrounds, thereby enriching their academic experience.

The university occupies a 5.04 hectare lot along busy Taft Avenue in Manila. It is about four kilometers away from Manila's City Hall and is easily accessible by public transportation. Along this kilometer radius are situated other colleges and universities, a sports center complex, the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas, the Cultural Center of the Philippines complex, a row of four-and-five-star hotels, restaurants, shopping and entertainment centers, as well as main feeder roads. The rest of Metropolitan Manila and its environs are easily accessible by private or public transportation.

The university takes care of the overall well-being of the members of the academic community. The university continuously refines technology, skills and techniques essential in teaching and forward-looking research. Most operational systems and processes are computerized. The quality of life in campus is at par with leading Asian universities. This is evident in its world-class physical environment that provides a peaceful and secure ambiance.

Notable campus structures:

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St. La Salle Hall (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._La_Salle_Hall) (From Wikipedia)

The St. La Salle Hall is a neoclassical building that was built from 1920 to 1924 as the new campus of De La Salle College facing Taft Avenue in the district of Malate in Manila. It was built due to the lack of space of the original campus in Paco, Manila and need of the college of a larger campus to accommodate its increasing student population. A competition to design the building was won by Cornell University graduate and renowned architect, Tomas Mapua.

It was once used as the grade school and high school building back when the college was still offering those levels. It has a chapel occupying the second and third levels of the south wing of the building. Originally built as a three-storey structure, a fourth level was added in the 1990s for the Open House of the De La Salle Brothers. The building is occupied by the College of Business and Economics.

The structure was severely damaged during the Allied liberation of Manila in World War II in the Philippines. Numerous civilians took refuge in the building thinking that its thick concrete walls would protect them from anything but a direct hit. On February 12, 1945, sixteen Brothers and several other civilians were massacred by drunken Japanese troops inside the school chapel at the second floor.

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Don Enrique T. Yuchengco Hall (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Enrique_T._Yuchengco_Hall)

The Don Enrique T. Yuchengco Hall is a nine-storey neoclassical building located within the campus of De La Salle University-Manila. It was built on the former location of the Br. Athanasius Gym (now the Enrique Razon Sports Center) in the year 2000 to house the central administrative offices of the university. Former university president Br. Rolando Dizon FSC referred to the building as the "nerve center of the university as well as the hub of university activities with its theater and teleconference rooms." A special feature of the building is the controlled central computer for building automation, particularly in the air-conditioning and fire protection systems. The building has an art gallery on the second floor and a three-storey state-of-the art auditorium on top. It was completed in the year 2002 and inaugurated in August 15 of the same year. Since its completion, the Yuchengco Hall has been featured on the background design of the University's ID cards.

The building was constructed through the assistance of Ambassador Alfonso T. Yuchengco, Philippine Permanent Representative to the United Nations and Chairman of the Yuchengco Center. The building was named the Don Enrique T. Yuchengco Hall in honor of Ambassador Alfonso T. Yuchengco’s father. The building was previously used by the College of Education; the College has since moved to the Br. Andrew Gonzalez Hall.

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University Library (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_La_Salle_University-Manila_Library)

The De La Salle University-Manila Library or the DLSU Library was established in the 1950s when the collection of the combined high school and college libraries were transferred to the St. Joseph Hall. The library was located in the first two floors and started operations with barely 10,000 books and a reading area able to seat 100.

In 1985, the library was moved in a fully air-conditioned, four-storey building located behind the St. Joseph Hall, built through a donation from the Office of American Schools and Hospitals Abroad of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), under the sponsorship of the Christian Brothers Conference of Illinois, and through donations from the University's alumni and benefactors. In 2006, the library opened an extension at the second floor of the Br. Andrew Gonzalez Hall.

It has over 6,800 square meters accommodating its collection of approximately 290,000 books, 10,000 periodical titles, 1,000 CD-ROM volumes, 10,000 audio-visual materials, 1,200 units of media equipment, 30,000 theses and dissertations, 25,000 volumes of other print materials, 772 maps, and 161 pieces of artwork.

The University Library was named as the Outstanding Library of 2003 by the Philippine Academic and Research Libraries (PAARL), the first library to be such honored.

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Enrique M. Razon Sports Center (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enrique_M._Razon_Sports_Center)

The Enrique M. Razon Sports Center is a ten-storey neoclassical building that was built in 1998 to replace the old Br. Athanasius Gym that was demolished in 2000 to give way for the construction of the Yuchengco Hall. The Sports Complex stands on a 3,155 square meter lot located at the corner of Agno and Noli streets.

The nine-storey building is served by three passenger elevators that are located by the entrance. The ground floor houses the clinic and an Olympic-size swimming pool as well as its complementing locker rooms and shower areas. The second floor houses a bookstore, a canteen, as well as a balcony area for swimming pool spectators.

The third to sixth floors of the building are parking areas that can accommodate 345 cars, with room for 700 once hydraulic lifts are installed. The third floor parking area is reserved for faculty members only. The seventh floor houses the basketball, volleyball, and table tennis courts, the offices and lounge area of the Physical Education Department of the College of Education, and a classroom. The 8th floor houses classrooms, dance and martial arts studio, and a track and field oval/balcony area for the 7th floor.

The ninth-floor gymnasium can be accessed only through stairs and houses another set of classrooms, dance studios, martial arts dojo, as well as a weight training gym.

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Br. Andrew Gonzalez Hall (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Br._Andrew_Gonzalez_Hall)

The Br. Andrew Gonzalez Hall is a 20 storey academic complex designed by Philip H. Recto Architects for De La Salle University-Manila. It is located on a 1,700-square-meter lot between Taft Avenue and Fidel Reyes St. and in front of the Enrique M. Razon Sports Center. Rising to a height of 90 meters, it is the highest educational structure in the Philippines. The building houses the General Education Department, the College of Education and the Asia-Pacific Center for Teachers’ Education and Development (ACTED). The building was formerly referred to as the GE/CED/ACTED Building before being named in honor of Br. Andrew Gonzalez FSC on September 28, 2005.

The building was opened for use in May 2006 for the first trimester despite not being completely finished at the time. A common sight at the building is the overcrowding of students at the ground floor lobby waiting for the elevators during class hours. As a result, some students resort to using the fire exit stairs to go up the building to avoid getting late for their classes.

Other pictures:

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Conservatory

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Br. Connon Hall

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Amphitheater

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Don Enrique T. Yuchengco Hall

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Velasco Hall

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St. Br. Miguel Hall

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Science and Technology Research Center

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Enrique M. Razon Sports Center

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Br. Andrew Gonzalez Hall

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Mithril Cloud

April 7th, 2007, 05:57 AM

De La Salle-College of Saint Benilde
http://www.dls-csb.edu.ph

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De La Salle-College of Saint Benilde (DLS-CSB) started out as a community or night school for working students based in De La Salle University-Manila (DLSU-M). Under the leadership of the late Br. Andrew B. Gonzalez FSC, the community school evolved into a dynamic institution that offered pioneering degree programs different from what regular universities and colleges had.

Today, DLS-CSB is a learner-centered community that belongs to the eighteen District schools that comprise De La Salle Philippines (DLSP). Guided by the Lasallian tradition of Religio, Mores, et Cultura, our educational philosophy is founded on the belief that each student is endowed by God with talents and gifts that should be understood, appreciated, and nurtured.

The college strives to create a learning environment that allows you to develop your interests and passions so that you will become professionally competent in established industries and emerging fields of specialization. The degree programs in design and arts; hotel and travel industry; entrepreneurship and business administration; and diplomatic affairs are supported by hands-on training and practical course work, well-maintained facilities, sophisticated learning resources, student support systems and services, and mentors who are also industry practitioners.

The college also believes and encourages learning in its many forms. Spirituality, creative pursuits, artistic endeavors, service to the community, awareness of environmental issues, and concern for the common good are all part of a Benildean education. At DLS-CSB, learning is a continuing process of transformation.

DLS-CSB is located along major thoroughfares in Manila and is easily accessible by both public and private transportation. It is approximately one kilometer away from the Cultural Center Complex and four kilometers away from Manila City Hall and adjacent government buildings. The college has three campuses, the Taft Campus, Angelo King International Center Campus, and the soon-to-open School of Design and Arts Campus.

Academics

The college recognizes the multi-dimensionality of human intelligence based from Howard Gardner's theory of multiple intelligences, where each person is said to possess varying levels of the different intelligences which determine his or her unique cognitive profile. The theory is implemented through learner-centered instruction where classes are taught according to the student's understanding of the subject and recognizes the uniqueness of each individual learner. Learner-centered also refers to a learning environment that pays attention to the knowledge, skills, attitudes, and beliefs that learners bring to the educational setting.

The college has five schools which offers degree and non-degree programs designed for the development of professionals in the arts, design, management, service industries, computer applications in business, and special fields in study.

School of Design and Arts:

• AB in Animation
• AB in Digital Filmmaking
• AB in Photography
• AB in Fasion Design and Managment
• AB in Multimedia Arts
• AB in Arts Management
• AB in Music Production
• AB in Technical Theater
• AB in Production Design
• BPA (Bachelor in Performing Arts), major in Dance
• BS Industrial Design
• BS Interior Design

School of Management and Information Technology:

• BSBA (Bachelor of Science in Business Administration) major in Computer Applications
• BSBA, major in Export Management
• BSBA, major in Information Management
• BSBA, major in Human Resource Management
• BSBA, major in Business Management*
• BSBA, major in Marketing Management*

* Night School

School of Hotel, Restaurant, and Institution Management:

• BS Hotel, Restaurant, and Institution Management
with tracks in: Culinary Arts, Tourism, Hospitality Management

School of Multidisciplinary Studies:

• AB in Consular and Diplomatic Affairs

School of Deaf Education and Applied Studies:

• Bachelor in Applied Deaf Studies
with tracks in: Multimedia Arts, Business Enterpreneurship

Campus

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Taft Campus (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_La_Salle-College_of_Saint_Benilde#Taft_Campus)

The Taft Campus stands on a 6,380 square meter lot that stretches from Taft Avenue to the next parallel street, Leon Guinto. The land was acquired from LBP Leasing Corporation, a subsidiary of the Land Bank of the Philippines. The campus is a square made up of four interconnected buildings, the St. Benilde Hall, Duerr Hall, Blessed Solomon Hall, and the St. Mutien Marie Hall. The Duerr Hall has a different alignment with the rest of the buildings, requiring the need for stairs and a ramp on its intersections with the Blessed Solomon Hall. The four buildings house fully air-conditioned rooms; two libraries; a theater; a gym; a promenade area with an open basketball court; chapel; workshops and laboratories; conference rooms; a clinic; and case-and audiovisual rooms.

The Plaza Villarosa, named after Architect Rogelio Villarosa, is located on the second level of the Taft Campus. It is decorated by lush plants and palm trees, has a basketball court, an elevated platform, and several cabañas with stone benches. The Plaza is usually used as a study area and venue for special events and activities in the campus. It is also commonly used as a shooting ground for the photography classes of the Multimedia Arts program. Every term, the plaza is sometimes used as venue for bazaars run by different student organizations. Popular food establishments also temporarily set up stalls in the plaza. The statue of Saint Benilde, originally located on the former front gate of the campus, was moved to the plaza after its completion. Behind the statue is an 18-bell carillon, built as a memorial to the Lasallian brothers who were massacred in De La Salle College during World War II. The names of the brothers are inscribed on the bells of the carillon. The carillon and the statue of Saint Benilde, when taken together, stand as the visual representation of the college.

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Angelo King International Center (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_La_Salle-College_of_Saint_Benilde#Angelo_King_International_Center)

The Angelo King International Center (AKIC, also as the CSB-International Conference Center) is a fully operational 4-star hotel located on a 2,100 square meter lot at the corner of Estrada street and Arellano Avenue, two blocks away from the main campus and was formerly used as parking space. It was envisioned to be the first operational hotel-school in the Philippines, where students will be able to experience learning in a real world environment. roundbreaking rites for the building was done in 1996 but actual construction began in 1998 and was finished a year after and was formally opened in August. It was named after Dr. Angelo King, who gave financial assistance to the construction of the building.

Sharing the space at the building is the CSB Hotel, which has 46 guest rooms and five dormitory type rooms, a conference hall, fine dining restaurant and lobby lounge, cafeteria, transport services office, rooftop restaurant, parking space for 126 vehicles, and two service elevators.

The School of Hotel, Restaurant and Institution Management occupies four floors with 14 air-conditioned classrooms, a tierred demonstration kitchen, demonstration bar, institutional hot, cold and baking/pastry kitchens with adequate cold and dry storage areas, two basic food laboratories, two computer laboratories, a nutrition laboratory, conference rooms, a clinic, and a chapel. The School of HRIM is served by two passenger elevators and one service elevator.

Near the AKIC building is the Solomon Guest House, which is operated by selected SHRIM students, where they are involved from marketing to meal preparation and service. The SGH also has three rooms and a suite which could be used as venues for private meetings and gatherings.

The AKIC Campus is divided as follows, where the first, second, tenth and twelfth floors are used by the CSB Hotel, and the third to fifth floors are for interior parking while the SHRIM occupes fifth to ninth floors.

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School of Design and Arts Building (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_La_Salle-College_of_Saint_Benilde#School_of_Design_and_Arts_Building)
Corresponding SSC Thread: http://skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=401556

The School of Design and Arts Building (SDA Building) is a 14-storey academic complex with 65,000 m² of usable floor space designed by Architect Ed Calma. It was built on a 4,560 m² lot that was formerly used as parking space for the college, located at Pablo Ocampo Street, and 500 meters away from the Taft Campus. It was originally planned to open in January 2006, but due to construction delays, the opening was moved to May 2007. Once completed, it will be the third, largest, and most advanced campus of the college which will house its largest and busiest school, the School of Design and Arts. While the exact budget for the building is classified, an estimated amount of 1.2 billion pesos was said to be alloted for the whole building project.

The building has been dubbed by De La Salle University System president, Br. Armin Luistro FSC as the "jewel in the crown of the De La Salle University System schools", as well as one of De La Salle's most ambitious projects. The building features an architectural design never been used before, with a sophisticated façade and all-glass backside and designed where only the tenth floor upwards is visible. Architect Ed Calma relates that the building will feature louvers which, when illuminated at night, will appear like lanterns and considering the location, the lighting effects would set the building apart from its surroundings.

The opening date of the building was moved to September 2006 when the January 2006 opening cannot be pushed through, but due to construction delays again, a September opening was not possible and the administration is hoping for a May 2007 opening instead. The building was delayed due to the intricacy of the architectural design, implementation of the complicated plans, and other problems encountered with the Project Manager and the Contractor. The architectural plans presented design issues which made it difficult to implement plans at a steady rate and construction management encountered conflicts in approach and principles of the onsite technical team. Subsequent need to reevaluate and readjust operational and resource allocation further contributed to the delay. The construction however, gained a steady pace after October 2006.

The building will have four floors of above-level parking space and ten floors of usable workspace served by two service and five passenger elevators and five sets of stairs. Among the facilities include the SDA Theater, a 3-floor, 700-seater theater which is cantilevered four storeys above the ground. There is also the Museum of Contemporary Art and Design (MCAD) located on the ground floor, which is a 520 square meter contemporary art museum envisioned to be the first of its kind in the Philippines. The building will have a cafeteria, a chapel, and a two-floor library in addition to lecture, computer, and seminar rooms. There will also be several video, animation, and sound production laboratories as well as a photography studio and a greenscreen TV and film production studio with motion capture equipment. The walls of every room is tilted to have better response to sound, while its open-air corridors are built wide enough to double as exhibition spaces.

Mithril Cloud

April 7th, 2007, 06:14 AM

University of Santo Tomas (Source: http://todaimitaka.blogspot.com/2007_03_01_archive.html)

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View of the UST Main Building from Arsenio Lacson

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View of the UST Angelico (Architecture and Fine Arts) Building

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UST Main Building

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UST Chapel and Ecclesiastical Faculties

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View of the UST Grandstand and Athletic Field

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UST Faculty of Medicine and Surgery

Mithril Cloud

April 7th, 2007, 06:17 AM

University of the Philippines, Diliman c/o cko_cousin (PEx)

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Math Building

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Engineering Library

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Natural Sciences

Mithril Cloud

April 7th, 2007, 06:22 AM

Ateneo de Manila University c/o praetorian_8

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Church of the Gesu

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Mateo Ricci Study Hall

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Manuel V. Pangilinan Center for Student Leadership

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John Gokongwei School of Management

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Horacio de la Costa Hall

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Garden

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Ateneo Professional Schools, Rockwell Center, Makati City

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Garden

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Inside

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Chapel

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Library

IMPRESARIO

April 7th, 2007, 07:16 AM

Some Colleges and Universities in Visayas and Mindanao
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John B. Lacson Foundation Maritime University
Iloilo's Newest University, and First Maritime University in RP.

KulasKusgan

April 7th, 2007, 07:30 AM

^^ memorable sakin yang university of southeastern philippines (usep)-davao city & urios university-butuan city.

i first entered college sa usep. mura lang ang tuition since state u sya. 1000 pesos for the entire sem. ang kaso twice akong bumagsak sa isang subject, so lumipat ako ng ibang eskwelahan.

sa urios naman, dyan kami nag-take ng entrance exam para sa company na presently employed ako. luckily, pumasa naman ako. and i got hired.

fundraiser

April 7th, 2007, 08:35 AM

University of Santo Tomas (Source: http://todaimitaka.blogspot.com/2007_03_01_archive.html)

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View of the UST Grandstand and Athletic Field

waaaah i miss this place, i remember when i took the pharma board exams, simbang gabi was always held in this field. i just miss UST and its sorroundings.

Sinjin P.

April 7th, 2007, 08:49 AM

^^ Partial list? Where's the whole list? :dunno:

I just got that from Wikipedia and they say it's a partial list :colgate:

dinabaw

April 7th, 2007, 08:53 AM

pansin ko lang UP ba talga si @BAKEKANG eh bakit double s and universities nya

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=460542 :jk: :colgate:

peace be w/ you bakekang it's black saturday ....

fundraiser

April 7th, 2007, 09:12 AM

^^ sus, nanaman! tigil na nga yan

dinabaw

April 7th, 2007, 09:21 AM

^ joke ra na oi .... peace man mi ni @BAKEKANG :colgate:

WawaY[625]

April 7th, 2007, 07:30 PM

waaaah i miss this place, i remember when i took the pharma board exams, simbang gabi was always held in this field. i just miss UST and its sorroundings.

ahhh yes, simbang gabi sa stand ng UST..tapos habang naglalakad kami from the aparment to UST (along P.Florentino street) may mga naka setup sa speakers sa road na nagpplay ng X-mas song

tapos sa last night ng simbang gabi (sa UST church na mismo) ang suot ko jogging pants and t-back na panlalaki (long story pero i lost a bet kasi ang yun ang consequence)

fundraiser

April 7th, 2007, 08:16 PM

hay naku, ako naman iba naman ang experience ko at UST during simbang gabi, sa pagmamadali ko, nakalimutan ko na nadala ko pala ang toothbrush ko sa UST from the dorm. eh may inspection sa gate ng UST. nakapkapan ng guard. akala ata batangas knife o kung ano, ayun, ipinakita ko sa kanya, at nakita din ng mga nakasunod sa akin.... ang galing ni paulo!!! hehehe

davaoeagle

April 7th, 2007, 10:19 PM

I just got that from Wikipedia and they say it's a partial list :colgate:

Really partial because a lot of other big colleges in Davao Region are not there..:cheers:

kiretoce

April 8th, 2007, 01:45 AM

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Notice something odd with this picture? :colgate:

dinabaw

April 8th, 2007, 02:06 AM

^^ yeah that steel pole in between the parking space :D

kiretoce

April 8th, 2007, 02:12 AM

^^ Bingo! How can one park so perfectly centered in the space with that pole blocking it? :dunno: Chalk it up to "only in the Philippines" I guess. :lol:

dinabaw

April 8th, 2007, 02:48 AM

^^ Bingo! How can one park so perfectly centered in the space with that pole blocking it? :dunno: Chalk it up to "only in the Philippines" I guess. :lol:

umm your not a filipino if you can't park it there :lol: seriously i think that steel pole is detouchable bec some untouchable guy owns the space :colgate:

bagel

April 9th, 2007, 07:56 PM

umm your not a filipino if you can't park it there :lol: seriously i think that steel pole is detouchable bec some untouchable guy owns the space :colgate:

If he's untouchable, why does he only have a beat up old Lancer. Or whatever car that is... Good parking job. Maybe someone played a prank on him and carried his car there with many people.

Mithril Cloud

April 10th, 2007, 12:14 PM

Worth the Wait
State-of-the-art SDA Building ready for S.Y. 2007-2008
From perspective, The official newsletter of De La Salle-College of Saint Benilde, April 9 - April 15, 2007 Issue, Volume 8, No. 41

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DLS-CSB's School of Design and Arts will be moving into the much-anticipated SDA Building on 950 Pablo Ocampo Street, Malate, Manila in time for S.Y. 2007-2008.

The SDA Building—a 14-storey academic complex designed by Lor Calma Design and Associates, with Ed Calma as Design Principal—took two years to finish. More than just housing offices and classrooms, the SDA Building symbolizes DLS-CSB's continuing quest for excellence in the field of design and arts.

Br. Edmundo "Dodo" Fernandez FSC, who sits as DLS-CSB President until Br. Victor Franco FSC assumes the position at the start of the school year, stated, "The SDA Building was designed to nurture and develop the creativity of our students. I'd like for it to be seen as the center for creativity and innovation in the field of design and arts—not just in the Philippines but also for Asia."

Of course, putting up the SDA Building was not without its trials. "The biggest challenge was to finish the building," Br. Dodo said. "The building's design is rather intricate. The walls were designed to look like they fold, twist and turn. The rooms in the building are hardly typical. They have features that make them uniquely dynamic. The execution posed a big challenge for the engineers and contractors. We had some delays but when you see the building now, you'll see that it's worth the wait."

The SDA Building's exterior alone is quite impressive with its sleek facade done in aluminum cladding, a full glass curtain wall and multifaceted details. The building's interiors are also state-of-the-art.

Br. Dodo opined: "We've invested a lot on the SDA Building. I'm not just referring to the money spent. The building makes a statement about how we want to positio ourselves in the industry. This building promises to be the home for the best and the brightest."

SDA Building Fast Facts:
• Total floor area: 63,602.25 square meters
• Four floors of above-ground level parking space, 10 floors of usable workspace
• 558-seat amphitheater, cantilevered about four storeys above the ground
• Fully-equipped, air-conditioned classrooms
• Spacious corridors that double as exhibition spaces
• Houses the Museum of Contemporary Art and Design or MCAD
• Wi-Fi enabled
• First Philippine building using 10-G technology
• Has its own sewer treatment plant
• 105-seater cinema
• Has a Building Management System with intelligent controls for air conditioning; smoke detection and fire alarm; and CCTV surveillance security systems

IAMME

April 10th, 2007, 05:04 PM

University of the Philippines in the Visayas Academic Area
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University of the Philippines in the Visayas Dorm Area
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(so much land still waiting to developed)

weirdo

April 10th, 2007, 06:13 PM

wow. ang laki ng campus. at andaming trees.

[dx]

April 11th, 2007, 09:41 AM

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School of Management Building, Ateneo De Manila | Photo by Diana Moraleda (http://www.trekearth.com/members/djmoraleda/)

kwembinekwek

April 12th, 2007, 06:20 PM

New DLSU pictures which I personally took. No copyright issues for me as far as I'm concerned. :lol:

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kwembinekwek

April 16th, 2007, 11:30 PM

1 Timothy Chua DLSU 92.9
2 Zarina Bernabe DLSU 88.7
3 Roberto Galman DLSU 88.15
4 Janine Panganiban Recio MAPUA 87.65
5 Kristoffer Nicol So Lim DLSU 87.55
6 Ma. Deborah Vivas Baluran UNIV OF SOUTH PHIL 86.75
7 Menandro dela Cruz Roxas UP 86.3
8 Jessica Elaine Pajela Ferrer MAPUA 85.9
9 John Michael Gotera Dy DLSU 85.55
10 Allan Joseph Perez Paule MAPUA 85.35
10 Michael Albert Madrid Romero DLSU 85.35

:lol:

davaoeagle

April 17th, 2007, 02:51 AM

^^

got the link?

davaoeagle

April 20th, 2007, 06:45 PM

ELECTRONICS AND COMMUNICATIONS ENGINEER LICENSURE EXAMINATION RESULTS

The Professional Regulation Commission (PRC) announces that 889 out of 2,534 passed the Electronics and Communications Engineer Licensure Examination given by the Board of Electronics and Communications Engineering in the cities of Manila , Baguio , Cagayan De Oro, Cebu and Iloilo this April 2007.

The members of the Board of Electronics and Communications Engineering are Engr. Alfredo T. Fragante, Chairman; Engr. Rene Leandro P. Ebro and Engr. Sylvia I. Marcelo, Members.

The results were released in two (2) working days after the last day of examination.

Registration for the issuance of Professional Identification Card (ID) and Certificate of Registration will start on Monday, April 23, 2007 but not later than April 30, 2007 . Those who will register are required to bring the following: duly accomplished Oath Form or Panunumpa ng Propesyonal, current Community Tax Certificate (cedula), 2 pieces passport size picture (colored with white background and complete nametag), 1 piece 1” x 1” picture (colored with white background and complete nametag), 2 sets of metered documentary stamps, and 1 short brown envelope with name and profession; and to pay the Initial Registration Fee of P600 and Annual Registration Fee of P450 for 2007-2010. Successful examinees should personally register and sign in the Roster of Registered Professionals.

The oathtaking ceremony of the successful examinees in the said examination as well as the previous ones who have not taken their Oath of Professional will be held before the Board in MANILA on Monday, May 7, 2007 at 1:30 in the afternoon at the Fiesta Pavilion, Manila Hotel, One Rizal Park, Manila; in CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY on Saturday, May 12, 2007 at 10:00 in the morning at the De Luxe Hotel, Cogon, Cagayan de Oro City; and in CEBU CITY on Saturday, May 12, 2007 at 8:00 in the morning at the Club Ultima, Osmeña Blvd., Cebu City.

Registration for membership with the Institute of Electronics and Communications Engineers of the Philippines (IECEP) will start on Monday, April 23, 2007 .

The successful examinees who garnered the ten (10) highest places are the following:

RANK
NAME SCHOOL RATING(%)
1
TIMOTHY JOHN ANG CHUA
DE LA SALLE UNIVERSITY-MANILA
92.90

2
ZARINA IRA VELASCO BERNABE
DE LA SALLE UNIVERSITY-MANILA
88.70

3
ROBERTO SAN PEDRO GALMAN
DE LA SALLE UNIVERSITY-MANILA
88.15

4
JANINE PANGANIBAN RECIO
MAPUA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
87.65

5
KRISTOFFER NICOL SO LIM
DE LA SALLE UNIVERSITY-MANILA
87.55

6
MARIA DEBORAH VIVAS BALURAN
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHEASTERN PHILIPPINES-DAVAO CITY
86.75

7
MENANDRO DELA CRUZ ROXAS
UNIVERSITY OF THE PHILIPPINES-DILIMAN
86.30

8
JESSICA ELAINE PAJELA FERRER
MAPUA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
85.90

9
JOHN MICHAEL GOTERA DY
DE LA SALLE UNIVERSITY-MANILA
85.55

ALLAN JOSEPH PEREZ PAULE
MAPUA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
85.55

10
MICHAEL ALBERT MADRID ROMERO
DE LA SALLE UNIVERSITY-MANILA
85.35

Link: http://www.manilastandardtoday.com/?page=ece_april_18_2007

WawaY[625]

April 24th, 2007, 07:47 AM

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pang ring tone :D

http://rapidshare.com/files/23828498/BlueKnight.mp3

BLUE KNIGHT SONG

underneath the cloudless sky
let your banner flutter high
with flashing steel and ringing shield
let us sweep our battlefield.
with visor high and sword in hand;
come, blue knight, take your stand.
be men of virtue tried and true.
in your armor white and blue.

REFRAIN:

then on you knights of davao
to god's high command your hearts bow;
go onward on to the fight,
where glory shining bright.
o shake the mountain with your song
and with your banner march along.

onward speed, you gallant knight,
trusting god proclaim your right.
the clash of battle is sweet to hear
when the victory is near;

so greatful sons spread o'er the land
to the farthest ocean strand
with hearty song ring loud the fame
of our ateneo's name.

diehardbisdak

April 24th, 2007, 08:06 AM

Cebu Doctor's University
Reclamation Area, Mandaue City, Cebu

at last, the new CDU campus.. i'm posting only the interiors since i wasn't able to take a pic outside.. besides, we've already seen the building itself quite a number of times already..

main entrance
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ceiling of the main entrance
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staircase going up to the last floor
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the spacious hall
http://i62.photobucket.com/albums/h110/dabert/Cebu%20Pics/PIC020e.jpg

the classrooms (imo, they're almost the same as the old ones)
http://i62.photobucket.com/albums/h110/dabert/Cebu%20Pics/PIC037e.jpg

the canteen (just outside the building)
http://i62.photobucket.com/albums/h110/dabert/Cebu%20Pics/PIC041e.jpg

another one
http://i62.photobucket.com/albums/h110/dabert/Cebu%20Pics/PIC033e.jpg

and another one
http://i62.photobucket.com/albums/h110/dabert/Cebu%20Pics/PIC043e.jpg

ritche

April 26th, 2007, 05:42 AM

-edit-

ritche

April 26th, 2007, 05:44 AM

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Sinjin P.

April 27th, 2007, 05:35 AM

Did you know: There’s talk the University of Sto. Tomas is putting up a paid parking building once it can get funding for it.

Only three floors of the multistorey building will be set aside for parking. The rest of the floors will be dormitory space for some of its students.

http://businessmirror.com.ph/0427&282007/companies05.html

Animo

April 27th, 2007, 09:06 PM

FOUNDED on April 28, 1611, as the Colegio de Nuestra Señora del Santisimo Rosario by the third Archbishop of Manila, Msgr. Miguel de Benavides, OP, the school was originally meant to prepare young men for the priesthood. Located within Intramuros, the college was later renamed Colegio de Santo Tomas, in memory of the foremost Dominican theologian, Saint Thomas Aquinas.

More than a decade after its establishment, the Colegio was authorized to confer academic degrees in Theology, Philosophy, and Arts in 1624. On November 20, 1645, Pope Innocent X elevated the college to the rank of a university and in 1680, it was placed under royal patronage. In 1785, for the exceptional loyalty shown by the administration and students who volunteered to defend Manila against the British invasion, King Charles III granted it the title of "Royal University." Several centuries later, on September 17, 1902, Pope Leo XIII made the University of Santo Tomas a "Pontifical University" and in 1974, Pope Pius XII bestowed upon it the title of "The Catholic University of the Philippines."

The university moved in the late 1920s from Intramuros to its 21.5 hectare campus in the District of Sampaloc. Today, the Royal and Pontifical University of Santo Tomas is known not only as the oldest university in Asia but also as the biggest Catholic university in the world located in one campus.

Since its foundation, the university’s academic life has been interrupted only twice: From 1898 to 1899, during the Philippine Revolution against Spain; and from 1942 to 1945, during the Japanese occupation of Manila, when the University of Santo Tomas was transformed by the Japanese Forces into a concentration camp.

Today, the Royal and Pontifical University of Santo Tomas is a comprehensive higher education institution, offering a full range of diploma and degree programs from the primary to the graduate level, leaving its imprint of excellent and values-forming education on an increasingly expanding pool of alumni.

We congratulate the Royal and Pontifical University of Santo Tomas headed by its Rector, Rev. Fr. Ernesto M. Arceo, OP, its Board of Trustees, Economic Council, Council of Regents, Academic Senate, other Officers, Staff, Students, and Alumni on the occasion of its 396th anniversary.

http://www.mb.com.ph/OPED2007042892778.html

Mithril Cloud

April 28th, 2007, 03:06 PM

IVy08CiObuM
This video produced by Cecil Ravelas and created by Our Own Little Team La Salle was shown at the inauguration of the De La Salle-College of Saint Benilde School of Design and Arts building, Friday, April 27, 2007. The video features Br Dodo Fernandez FSC, Chairman of the Board, De La Salle-College of Saint Benilde. The soundtrack was composed by Pepe Manikan

Lili

April 30th, 2007, 05:12 AM

Take not the road less travelled
By Mikaela Irene Fudolig
UP Graduation 22 April 2007

One of the things that strike me as being very "UP Diliman" is the way
UPD students can't seem to stay on the pavement. From every street
corner that bounds an unpaved piece of land, one will espy a narrow
trail that cuts the corner, or leads from it. Every lawn around the
buildings sports at least one of these paths, starting from a point
nearest to the IKOT stop and ending at the nearest entry to the
building. The trails are beaten on the grass by many pairs of feet
wanting to save a fraction of a meter of traveling, no matter that
doing so will exact some cost to the shoes, or, to the ubiquitous
slippers, especially when the trails are new.

What do these paths say abou! t us, UP students?

One could say that the UP student is enamored with Mathematics and
Pythagoras, hence these triangles formed by the pavement and the path.
Many among you would disagree.

Others could say that the UP student is naturally countercultural. And
the refusal to use the pavement is just one of the myriads of ways to
show his defiance of the order of things. This time, many would agree.

Still, others will say that the UP student is the model of today's
youth: they want everything easier, faster, now. The walkable paths
appeal to them because they get to their destination faster, and
presumably, with less effort. Now that is only partly true, and
totally unfair.

These trails weren't always walkable. No doubt they started as patches
of grass, perhaps overgrown. Those who first walked them must have
soiled their shoes, stubbed their toes, or had insects biting their
legs, all in the immovable belief that the nearest distance between
two points is a straight line. They might even have seen snakes cross
their paths. But the soiled footwear, sore toes, and itchy legs
started to conquer the grass. Other people, seeing the yet faint
trail, followed. And as more and more walked the path, the grass gave
in and stopped growing altogether, making the path more and more
visible, more and more walkable.

The persistence of the paths pays tribute to those UP students who
walked them first the pioneers of the unbeaten tracks: the defiant and
curious few who refuse the familiar and comfortable; the
out-of-the-box thinkers who solve problems instead of fretting about
them; the brave who dare do things differently, and open new
opportunities to those who follow.

They say how one behaved in the past would determine how he behaves in
the future. And as we leave the University, temporarily or for good,
let us call on the pioneering, defiant, and brave spirit that built
the paths to guide us in this next phase of our life.

We have been warned time and again. Our new world that they call
"adulthood" is one that's full of compromises, where success is
determined more by the ability to belong than by the ability to think,
where it is much easier to do as everyone else does. Daily we are
bombarded with so much news of despair about the state of our nation,
and the apparent, perverse sense of satisfaction our politicians get
from vilifying our state of affairs. It is fashionable to migrate to
other countries to work in deceptively high-paying jobs like nursing
and teaching, forgetting that even at their favored work destinations,
nurses and teachers are some of the lowest paid professionals. The
lure of high and immediate monetary benefits in some low-end
outsourcing jobs has drawn even some of the brightest UP students away
from both industry and university teaching to which they would have
been better suited.

Like the sidewalks and pavement, these paths are the easiest to take.

But, like the sidewalks and pavement, these paths take longer to
traverse, just as individual successes do not always make for national
progress. The unceasing critic could get elected, but not get the job
done. The immigrant could get his visa, but disappear from our
brainpower pool. The highly paid employee would be underutilized for
his skills, and pine to get the job he truly wants, but is now out of
his reach. And the country, and we, are poorer because of these.

Today, the nation needs brave, defiant pioneers to reverse our
nation's slide to despair. Today, we must call upon the spirit that
beat the tracks. Today, we must present an alternative way of doing
things.

Do NOT just take courage, for courage is not enough. Instead, be
BRAVE! It will take bravery to go against popular wisdom, against the
clichid expectations of family and friends. It will take bravery to
gamble your future by staying in the country and try to make a
prosperous life here. It might help if for a start, we try to see why
our Korean friends are flocking to our country. Why, as many of us
line up for immigrant visas in various embassies, they get themselves
naturalized and settle here. Do they know something we don't?

Do NOT just be strong in your convictions, for strength is not enough.
Instead, DEFY the pressure to lead a comfortable, but middling life.
Let us lead this country from the despair of mediocrity. Let us not
seek to do well, but strive to EXCEL in everything that we do. This,
so others will see us as a nation of brains of the highest quality,
not just of brawn that could be had for cheap.

Take NOT the road less traveled. Rather, MAKE new roads, BLAZE new
trails, FIND new routes to your dreams. Unlike the track-beaters in
campus who see where they're going, we may not know how far we can go.
But if we are brave, defiant searchers of excellence, we will go far.
Explore possibilities, that others may get a similar chance. I have
tried it myself. And I'm speaking to you now.

But talk is cheap, they say. And so I put my money where my mouth is.
Today, I place myself in the service of the University, if it will
have me. I would like to teach, to share knowledge, and perhaps to be
an example to new UP students in thinking and striving beyond the
limits of the possible. This may only be a small disturbance in the
grass. But I hope you'll come with me, and trample a new path.

Good evening, everyone.

-=+cZaRiNa+=-

May 2nd, 2007, 07:09 PM

Lili

May 2nd, 2007, 07:11 PM

^ It says that she is just 16. I didn't get to post the accompanying introduction.

richard24

May 4th, 2007, 11:19 AM

from the pup website.. www.pup.edu.ph

main gate... :)
http://www.pup.edu.ph/images/mainpix/px2007MainGate01.gif

the mabini monument.. :)
http://www.pup.edu.ph/images/mainpix/px2007MabiniE01.gif
http://www.pup.edu.ph/images/mainpix/px2007MabiniC01.gif
http://www.pup.edu.ph/images/mainpix/px2007MabiniD01.gif
http://www.pup.edu.ph/images/mainpix/px2007MabiniA01.gif
http://www.pup.edu.ph/images/mainpix/px2007MabiniB01.gif
http://www.pup.edu.ph/images/mainpix/px2007MabiniC01.gif

the mural
http://www.pup.edu.ph/images/mainpix/pxMural01.gif

at ang ang SSC na banner ng PUP website.. :)\
http://www.pup.edu.ph/images/mainpix/px2007ViewA01.gif
isa pa!!! :)
http://www.pup.edu.ph/images/mainpix/px2007ViewB01.gif

the new landscpaing around the main bldg.
http://www.pup.edu.ph/images/mainpix/px2007EastB01.gif
http://www.pup.edu.ph/images/mainpix/px2007EastC01.gif
http://www.pup.edu.ph/images/mainpix/px2007EastD01.gif
http://www.pup.edu.ph/images/mainpix/px2007EastA01.gif

the north wing food court
http://www.pup.edu.ph/images/mainpix/px2007FStrip01.gif

the pasig river linear park
http://www.pup.edu.ph/images/mainpix/px2007LParkA01.gif
http://www.pup.edu.ph/images/mainpix/px2007LParkB01.gif

the new grilled windows (ano yan?!? for security? :lol: )
http://www.pup.edu.ph/images/mainpix/px2007NorthA01.gif

the new flapole almost as tall as the main bldg. (6 floors)
http://www.pup.edu.ph/images/mainpix/px2007Flag01.gif

all pix from the PUP website.. www.pup.edu.ph
credits for the photographers...

Dvorak

May 4th, 2007, 01:46 PM

tnx richard.. haven't been there in 3 years..

surfsam

May 6th, 2007, 09:41 AM

The irony is that Mikaela Fudolig did not make it as one of the finalists of the Outstanding Students of the Philippines search.

The organizers and the preliminary judges (mostly people who are not from UP) did not even give the Fudolig a chance to speak.

They got finalists from all other schools instead.

I wonder if this year's finalists can write as lucidly as Fudolig, who is only 17 years old.

***

Originally Posted by Lili

Take not the road less travelled
By Mikaela Irene Fudolig
UP Graduation 22 April 2007

One of the things that strike me as being very "UP Diliman" is the way
UPD students can't seem to stay on the pavement. From every street
corner that bounds an unpaved piece of land, one will espy a narrow
trail that cuts the corner, or leads from it. Every lawn around the
buildings sports at least one of these paths, starting from a point
nearest to the IKOT stop and ending at the nearest entry to the
building. The trails are beaten on the grass by many pairs of feet
wanting to save a fraction of a meter of traveling, no matter that
doing so will exact some cost to the shoes, or, to the ubiquitous
slippers, especially when the trails are new.

What do these paths say abou! t us, UP students?

One could say that the UP student is enamored with Mathematics and
Pythagoras, hence these triangles formed by the pavement and the path.
Many among you would disagree.

Others could say that the UP student is naturally countercultural. And
the refusal to use the pavement is just one of the myriads of ways to
show his defiance of the order of things. This time, many would agree.

Still, others will say that the UP student is the model of today's
youth: they want everything easier, faster, now. The walkable paths
appeal to them because they get to their destination faster, and
presumably, with less effort. Now that is only partly true, and
totally unfair.

These trails weren't always walkable. No doubt they started as patches
of grass, perhaps overgrown. Those who first walked them must have
soiled their shoes, stubbed their toes, or had insects biting their
legs, all in the immovable belief that the nearest distance between
two points is a straight line. They might even have seen snakes cross
their paths. But the soiled footwear, sore toes, and itchy legs
started to conquer the grass. Other people, seeing the yet faint
trail, followed. And as more and more walked the path, the grass gave
in and stopped growing altogether, making the path more and more
visible, more and more walkable.

The persistence of the paths pays tribute to those UP students who
walked them first the pioneers of the unbeaten tracks: the defiant and
curious few who refuse the familiar and comfortable; the
out-of-the-box thinkers who solve problems instead of fretting about
them; the brave who dare do things differently, and open new
opportunities to those who follow.

They say how one behaved in the past would determine how he behaves in
the future. And as we leave the University, temporarily or for good,
let us call on the pioneering, defiant, and brave spirit that built
the paths to guide us in this next phase of our life.

We have been warned time and again. Our new world that they call
"adulthood" is one that's full of compromises, where success is
determined more by the ability to belong than by the ability to think,
where it is much easier to do as everyone else does. Daily we are
bombarded with so much news of despair about the state of our nation,
and the apparent, perverse sense of satisfaction our politicians get
from vilifying our state of affairs. It is fashionable to migrate to
other countries to work in deceptively high-paying jobs like nursing
and teaching, forgetting that even at their favored work destinations,
nurses and teachers are some of the lowest paid professionals. The
lure of high and immediate monetary benefits in some low-end
outsourcing jobs has drawn even some of the brightest UP students away
from both industry and university teaching to which they would have
been better suited.

Like the sidewalks and pavement, these paths are the easiest to take.

But, like the sidewalks and pavement, these paths take longer to
traverse, just as individual successes do not always make for national
progress. The unceasing critic could get elected, but not get the job
done. The immigrant could get his visa, but disappear from our
brainpower pool. The highly paid employee would be underutilized for
his skills, and pine to get the job he truly wants, but is now out of
his reach. And the country, and we, are poorer because of these.

Today, the nation needs brave, defiant pioneers to reverse our
nation's slide to despair. Today, we must call upon the spirit that
beat the tracks. Today, we must present an alternative way of doing
things.

Do NOT just take courage, for courage is not enough. Instead, be
BRAVE! It will take bravery to go against popular wisdom, against the
clichid expectations of family and friends. It will take bravery to
gamble your future by staying in the country and try to make a
prosperous life here. It might help if for a start, we try to see why
our Korean friends are flocking to our country. Why, as many of us
line up for immigrant visas in various embassies, they get themselves
naturalized and settle here. Do they know something we don't?

Do NOT just be strong in your convictions, for strength is not enough.
Instead, DEFY the pressure to lead a comfortable, but middling life.
Let us lead this country from the despair of mediocrity. Let us not
seek to do well, but strive to EXCEL in everything that we do. This,
so others will see us as a nation of brains of the highest quality,
not just of brawn that could be had for cheap.

Take NOT the road less traveled. Rather, MAKE new roads, BLAZE new
trails, FIND new routes to your dreams. Unlike the track-beaters in
campus who see where they're going, we may not know how far we can go.
But if we are brave, defiant searchers of excellence, we will go far.
Explore possibilities, that others may get a similar chance. I have
tried it myself. And I'm speaking to you now.

But talk is cheap, they say. And so I put my money where my mouth is.
Today, I place myself in the service of the University, if it will
have me. I would like to teach, to share knowledge, and perhaps to be
an example to new UP students in thinking and striving beyond the
limits of the possible. This may only be a small disturbance in the
grass. But I hope you'll come with me, and trample a new path.

Good evening, everyone.

alexela

May 6th, 2007, 03:23 PM

formerly known as Don Bosco Seminary
http://i79.photobucket.com/albums/j127/super_alex/untitled.jpg

http://i79.photobucket.com/albums/j127/super_alex/dblogo.jpg

Shrine of Mary Help of Christians
http://i79.photobucket.com/albums/j127/super_alex/shrine1.jpg

http://i79.photobucket.com/albums/j127/super_alex/shrine2.jpg

Merry Christmas...
http://i79.photobucket.com/albums/j127/super_alex/White.jpg

http://i79.photobucket.com/albums/j127/super_alex/Astig.jpg

Present Gymnasium
http://i79.photobucket.com/albums/j127/super_alex/100_1571.jpg

Proposed New Gymnasium
http://i79.photobucket.com/albums/j127/super_alex/100_1720.jpg

ritche

May 9th, 2007, 08:11 PM

No to global warming! Yes to clean and green environment!Vote for partylist...

AGHAM

diehardbisdak

May 10th, 2007, 03:41 PM

University of San Carlos - Cebu City (pic by @cindz of flickr)

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/229/492275885_d020aaa1da_o.jpg

ritche

May 12th, 2007, 03:38 PM

Dumaguete here we come!
KRIPOTKIN By Alfred A. Yuson
The Philippine STAR 04/23/2007

The 46th National Writers Workshop will be held in Dumaguete City from May
7 to 25, with 16 young writers granted fellowships this year.

The following writing fellows for the Summer of 2007 should get in touch
with Dr. Edith L. Tiempo, National Artist for Literature, c/o CAP Bldg.,
Rizal Blvd., Dumaguete City, or her secretary Jo Amaro, to confirm their
attendance ASAP:

Poetry: Kristian Abe L. Dalao, Krisette Sia-Valderia and Jennelyn Tabora
of De La Salle University, and Sharleen P. Banzon, Cecille La Verne de la
Cruz and Pancho Villanueva of UP Diliman;

Fiction: Catherine Alpay and Sasha Martinez of Ateneo de Manila
University, Janina Marie O. Rivera of DLSU, and Michelle Eva A. de Guzman
and Robert Jed Rio Malayang of Silliman University; and

Creative Non-fiction: Mia Tijam of UP Diliman, Martin Villanueva of AdMU,
and Jan Paulo A. Bastareche, Primy Joy Cane and Justine Megan Yu of
Silliman U.

All fellows are expected to arrive in Dumaguete City in time for the
opening session at 9 a.m. of Monday, May 7, at the Faurot House or what we
used to call End House, where the legendary art and music professor Dr.
Albert Faurot had his famous studio and residence.

richard24

May 17th, 2007, 09:29 AM

PUP Chosen SEA's First Railway Academy
5/12/2007

During the launch of the Philippine Railway Academy which is to be established and administered by the Polytechnic University of the Philippines, Speaker Jose De Venecia announced that the school is the first of its kind in South East Asia. De Venecia added that rebuilding the Philippine railway system which has been neglected for the past 35 years would be his legacy as a public servant.

During a PNR trip with President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, both saw the deplorable subhuman conditions of railways settlers whose shanties are a mere six inches away from the path of the trains. This incident prompted him to implement a systematized railway program which politicians have been promising their constituents since 1905 but has yet to be fulfilled.

Also present during the launch were CHED and PUP-BOR Chairman Carlito S. Puno, PUP President Dante G. Guevarra, DOTC Undersecretary Guiling A. Mamondiong, and MRT 3 General Manager Roberto Lastimoso. Dr. Puno pledged his full supoort to the project since it would create additional jobs for new graduates. Dr. Guevarra expressed PUP's pride in having been given the opportunity to help improve the country's railway system by addressing the problems of urban congestion and transport inaccessibility.

The railway academy will be initially funded by the DOTC with P 10 million for its 2007-2008 operation. Other government agencies like the Philippine National Railways (PNR), Light Railway Transit Authority (LRTA) North Rail, and the MetroStar Express (MRT ) have thrown their full support behind the project.

PUP College of Engineering Dean Manuel Muhi announced the offering of three new courses in the newly formed railway academy: Bachelor of Science in Railway Engineering and Management (BSREM), Railway Technology, and Railway Maintenance and Traffic Signaling. The BSREM which will have a ladderized curriculum will focus on skills and managerial development of students in railway operation, design, repair, maintenance, and management.

http://www.pup.edu.ph/newscenter/?id=15

death327

May 17th, 2007, 10:04 AM

davaoeagle

May 18th, 2007, 08:16 AM

HCDC Hosts International Museum Day
By Josie San Pedro

The International Museums Day on 18 May 2007 will be celebrated nationwide for the second time around. For Mindanao, it will be in Davao. This year’s theme is “Museums and Universal Heritage.” The Holy Cross of Davao College, Inc. (HCDC) will be hosting the said event, in cooperation with the Mindanao Association of Museums, Inc. (MAM) and the Association of Museums in Region XI (AMREG XI), and funding assistance from the National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA).

Interesting activities are lined up as follows: * Story telling session and workshop about “Darangen,” a Maranao epic that is recently declared as UNESCO Masterpiece of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity * Mini exhibit of “Darangen” illustrations * Film showing of world heritage sites in the Philippines * Museum tour to three local museums Museum workers, faculty members (especially those who are teaching social studies-and literature-related subjects), librarians, and cultural enthusiasts are encouraged to participate.

A minimal registration fee for Php 250.00 per person is to be collected to cover incidental expenses. For further information or for confirmation of attendance, you may contact our MAM secretariat through telefax (082) 221-3008 or email museum@hcdc.edu.ph. Simply look for Arnold or Nikki.

Int’l Museums Day The International Museums Day (IMD) 2007 is a one-day celebration featuring lectures, exhibits, museum tours, story telling sessions, and other activities which will be held simultaneously on 18 May 2007 in two venues: Baguio City (St. Louis University) and Davao City (Holy Cross of Davao College, Inc.) Since 1977, the IMD has been celebrated all over the world by member countries of the International Council of Museums (ICOM) to provide a reminder to governments/law makers and the public of the significant role museums play in the preservation of the rich natural and cultural herigate.

Decided by the ICOM Advisory Committee to better coordinate international celebration, this year’s theme, “Museums and Universal Heritage,” aims to make museums important means of cultural exchange between adults and the young people.

For 2007, the IMD is envisioned to achieve the following objectives: 1. To bolster recognition of museum’s role in preserving the natural and cultural heritage; 2. To provide opportunity for museum workers all over the country to meet colleagues and the young members of the communities and to be updated on the status of the World Heritage Sites found in the Philippines; 3. To raise awareness about the vital role museums play the protection and preservation of world heritage sites; 4. To promote awareness about the challenges that the museums as well as the World Heritage Sites might encounter in the future; 5. To promote linkages among museum workers in the preservation of cultural heritage, both tangible and intangible; 6. To set-up exhibits on the World Heritage Sites in the Philippines; 7.

To celebrate the IMD in key areas of the Philippines. Mindanao Celebration Davao City is the key area to celebrate the IMD 2007 in Mindanao. The line-up of activities is as follows: * Film showing It is a 45-minutes documentary film featuring the World Heritage Sites, to include those that can be found in the Philippines. * Story Telling Session and Workshop The story to be featured is “Darangen,” a Maranao epic that is recently declared as UNESCO Masterpiece of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity. The story telling session is to be participated in by both children (those coming from social welfare institutions such as the SOS Children’s Village and Balay Pasilungan) and professionals (museum workers, faculty members - especially those who are teaching social studies- and literature-related subjects, and enthusiasts)

Later on, the invited story teller will have a special workshop session with the professional group of participants for some tips, advices, and suggestions in the conduct of a story telling activity. * Mini Exhibit It is a small scale, simple exhibit of selected illustrations taken from a collection of books on “Darangen.” This is to augment the story telling session in terms of visualization of said complex Maranao epic.

The museum tour is a guided tour to three museums in Davao City. The participants are youth delegates from local social welfare institutions. While in transit, they are given pep talks and/or trivia questions about museums in the context of the museum to be visited.

Alingatong

May 18th, 2007, 05:28 PM

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http://i62.photobucket.com/albums/h117/Alingatong/industrial/msu4.jpg
Administration Bldg.

http://i62.photobucket.com/albums/h117/Alingatong/industrial/msu5.jpg
Mamitua Saber Research and Technology Center

http://i62.photobucket.com/albums/h117/Alingatong/industrial/msu6.jpg
Library

http://i62.photobucket.com/albums/h117/Alingatong/industrial/msu7.jpg
Aga Khan Museum

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Grand Stand

http://i62.photobucket.com/albums/h117/Alingatong/industrial/msu9.jpg
Dimaporo Gymnasium

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VIP Lounge

http://i62.photobucket.com/albums/h117/Alingatong/industrial/msu10.jpg
Peace Park

ritche

May 20th, 2007, 07:58 AM

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http://img170.imageshack.us/img170/7734/may192007009iq1.jpg

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Foundation University, founded by former president of the University of the Philippines Vicente G. Sinco and now handled by US-trained educators, is gearing to join the autonomous universities and colleges in the Philippines by building new facilities, acquiring new educational equipment and improving its general landscape. Dumaguete educational institutions Silliman University and St. Paul University are already in this elite list. It has partnered with Networking giant Cisco Systems and several IT firms such as Teletech and SPi, People2Outsource, Epixtar, etc. and is now considered a formidable force in the IT world in the Visayas area.

Website: www.foundationu.com (http://www.foundationu.com)

ritche

May 20th, 2007, 08:13 AM

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Colegio de Sta. Catalina de Alejandria, a diocesan college, was supposed to be integrated into the St. Paul University system as the downtown campus of St. Paul University Dumaguete. It is gearing up to be the fifth university in the University City of Dumaguete.

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Asian College of Science and Technology Dumaguete Campus

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Metro Dumaguete College

Aside from these institutions, there is a handful other educational institutions in Dumaguete such as the AMA University Dumaguete campus, Maxino College, STI, ACLC, etc.

BAKEKANG

May 21st, 2007, 12:23 AM

i have no idea MSU's campus was that beautiful. but i hope those pics were not doctored. :D
the pictures above are all nice too. maybe people from luzon should take a look at the schools in the south before finally applying for college. looks like many of them are in a wonderful location and are probably commendable and convincing enough to spend 4 years of your life.

Is there someone who's kind enough to post pics of UP Clark Field in Pampanga? Been to Clark Field so many times but never been to UP. I heard they've got a new school building, but wasn't sure if it's sophisticated enough for the high-end UP guys. :)

Alingatong

May 21st, 2007, 03:10 AM

^^They're (MSU Buildings) newly painted. The whole campus turned yellow. Only some adjustments on contrast and brightness. :)

davaoeagle

May 23rd, 2007, 07:59 AM

Kudos to our fellow ADDU Glee Clubber

{AdDU Alumni Affairs ePost # 101: 2007}

May 23, 2007

I am happy to share with you the good news of a recent achivement of alumna, Mrs. Marie Alexis "Jinky" Ocana-Relampagos (AB ComArts 1988). She was recognized as the Houston Independent School District (HISD) 2007 Elementary School Teacher of the Year. This prestigious award was given to her at a banquet held last May 9, 2007 at the George R. Brown Convention Center in downtown Houston, Texas. I believe this is the second time Jinky has received an award for being an outstanding Grade School Teacher. CONGRATULATIONS! ! !

Jinky Relampagos taught in our AdDU Grade School from school years 1989 to 1997. She was a Prep teacher from school years 1992 to 1997. Even then, she was known to be a very fine teacher.

Mrs. Relampagos is a Grade 2 teacher at the Briargrove Elementary School in Houston, Texas. I had occasion to experience the hospitality of Embong and Jinky and other Davaoeños during a visit to Houston, Texas in 2002.

More of Mrs. Relampagos' Teacher of the Year achievement may be viewed at:

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/nb/memorial/news/4791091.html
http://www.houstonisd.org

My thanks to Mr. Pablo "Embong" C. Relampagos IV (GS'78, HS'82, BSBA'91), Jinky's husband, for sharing the good news and pictures below. Hearty congratulations to Teacher Jinky and husband Embong and their two sons!

with warm regards and good wishes,

Fr. Renato C. Ocampo, S.J.
Alumni Director
Ateneo de Davao University
alumnidir@addu.edu.ph

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praetorian^8

May 24th, 2007, 11:00 AM

ADS soars in international, local debate competitions
date posted: 2007-05-24 09:13:08

It’s only the second quarter of 2007, yet the Ateneo Debate Society (ADS) has already reaped two major awards in international and local competitions.
During the Philippine Inter-Collegiate Debating Championship (PIDC) 2007: The Ninoy Aquino Cup held on April 13-16, 2007 in Tarlac, the Ateneo team bagged the championship title after upsetting the University of the Philippines Debate Society (UPDS) in the finals. The team, composed of Sharmila Parmanand, Leloy Claudio, and Miko Biscocho, clinched the title by a 5-2 vote from the adjudication panel. The contest theme was “Filipino minds, global perspectives.”

The PIDC was organized by the UPDS in partnership with the Tarlac Conventions and Visitors Bureau, the North Philippines Visitors Bureau and the Benigno S. Aquino Foundation.

Meanwhile, Ateneo team A won the Asian Universities Debating Championships (AUDC) 2007 held from December 27, 2006 to January 3, 2007 in Indonesia. The team, composed of Claudio, Parmanand, and Glenn Tuazon, battled it out with Asia’s best student debaters before defeating the National University of Singapore team in the finals. Moreover, Claudio was named best speaker in the final round.

The AUDC 2007 Top 10 Tab Speakers (using the tabulation system) included six Ateneans: Claudio, Tuazon, DS Corpuz (ADMU B), Kip Oebanda (ADMU B), Biscocho (ADMU B), and Parmanand (ADMU A).

davaoeagle

May 24th, 2007, 11:33 PM

^^

Animo Ateneo:cheers:

le Reine

May 25th, 2007, 02:03 AM

Good. Congrats Ateneo.

ritche

May 25th, 2007, 04:39 AM

The Negros Chronicle, May 20, 2007

Silliman University was among seven schools that represented the Philippines in the 3rd Asian Universities Debate Championship (AUDC) hosted at the Institut Teknologi Bandung in Bandung , Indonesia from May 9 to 17.

The AUDC gathered over 184 debaters and 62 adjudicators from seven countries: Singapore , Malaysia , Indonesia , Thailand , Bangladesh , Kazakhstan and the Philippines . It follows the Asians parliamentary format under which motions are released 25 minutes prior to the debate.

Representing the Philippines were: Ateneo de Manila University, De La Salle University, University of the Philippines Diliman, University of the Philippines Manila, College of St. Benilde , San Beda College and Silliman. Comprising Silliman Team A were Stacy Danika Alcantara (Mass Communication sophomore), Anna Katrina Espino (Management sophomore) and Charmaine Ann Bucol (Accountancy junior).

Two more Silliman debaters, Eliora Eunice Bernedo and Emarrah Contessa Sarreal, comprised a swing team with a debater from ITB. A swing team is able to debate as a regular team but is not allowed to break into the octofinals (the round in the final series among the top 16 teams).

Accompanying the Silliman team was adviser Mark Garcia, Director of the Office of Information and Publications. Garcia, who competed in the adjudication category, broke into the octofinals as the Top 13 adjudicator out of the Top 24 from among 62 adjudicators. He moved up to the finals and was one of three Filipinos on the nine-member adjudication panel that judged the championship round between Ateneo de Manila University Team A and National University of Singapore Team B on the motion: "This house believes that the West should respect the personal laws of religious minorities". Ateneo won the championship, marking its third-year victory.

davaoeagle

May 25th, 2007, 06:39 PM

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Mithril Cloud

May 26th, 2007, 10:26 AM

The May 2007 issue of Reader's Digest featured their Most Trusted Brands Awards. Reader's Digest assigned its awards based on 7,000 responses to questionnaires and telephone interviews from across Asia. Consumers were asked to nominate their most Trusted Brand in 43 product categories. The Gold Award recipients for the University segment under the Philippines category are De La Salle University, University of the Philippines, and University of Santo Tomas.

For the rest of the winning Philippine brands, visit http://www.rdasiatrustedbrands.com/2007/award/philip/index.html
For the methodology used by Reader's Digest, visit http://www.rdasiatrustedbrands.com/2007/survey/meth.html

Mithril Cloud

May 26th, 2007, 08:32 PM

De La Salle-Canlubang:

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By hg mulder of Panoramio:
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Main gate

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Milagros Del Rosario Building

De La Salle University-Dasmariñas by tunaturkeydog of Panoramio:

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Main road

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Aklatang Emilio Aguinaldo - University Library

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DLSU-D Grandstand

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DLSU-D Chapel

le Reine

May 27th, 2007, 12:47 PM

^that is a very beautiful university.

Dvorak

May 28th, 2007, 08:55 AM

Waldenstrom

May 30th, 2007, 07:23 AM

De La Salle University
HEALTH SCIENCES CAMPUS
DASMARIÑAS, CAVITE
(DLSU Colleges of Medicine, Physical Therapy, Medical Radiation Technology, Nursing & School of Midwifery)

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Left: Twin Hearts of Jesus & Mary Chapel, Right: Wang Building, Back: Dormbuilt
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state-of-the-art Wang Building
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Old Academic Building
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DLSU Medical Center: the 1st ISO Certified Hospital in the Philippines, 2nd in Asia
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DLSU-Angelo King Medical Research Center

davaoeagle

May 31st, 2007, 03:19 AM

Thursday, May 31, 2007
Only 7 colleges will not hike fees
By Carlo P. Mallo and Grace L. Plata

OF THE 47 tertiary education institutions all over the region, only seven have opted not to raise their tuition and miscellaneous fees this coming school year.

The seven are the Christian Colleges of Southeast Asia, Holy Cross of College of Calinan, Laak Institute Foundation, Liceo de Davao, Mindanao Kokasai Daigaku, Polytechnic College of Technology, and the St. Peter's College of Toril.

Fifteen still have a pending application for increase on school fees: the Arriesgado College Foundation, MATS College of Technology, Mindanao Medical Foundation College, Philippine Women's College of Cadavao, the seven branches of University of Mindanao (Davao, Bansalan, Tagum, Guianga, Panabo, Peñaplata, and Digos), St. Mary's College of Bagangan, St. Francis Xavier College Seminary, Samal Institute, and Agro Industrial College Foundation-Sta. Maria campus.

All the rest, including the major universities in the region, will be increasing their tuition and miscellaneous fees.

Student groups in the city are gearing up for a protest rally at the Freedom Park come June 13 - the first day of classes in the tertiary level - to protest against increases in tuition and miscellaneous fees.

Carlos Manlupig, Ateneo de Davao University Student Council President and Kabataan Party Coordinator-Davao City, said Wednesday that the youth are calling to both newly-elected officials and the Commission on Higher Education (Ched) to address the concerns of the Filipino students.

"Ni-recall nga nila yung (They recalled alright) Ched Memorandum 14 of 2005 pero ni-resurrect naman nila yung (but they allow to resurrect) Ched Memorandum 13 of 1998 na nagsasaad na wala nang ceiling yung pagtaas ng matrikula at iba pang bayarin sa mga pribadong institusyon (which states that there is no longer a ceiling in the increase of tuition and miscellaneous fees in private institutions)," Manlupig said.

The suspended Ched Memorandum 14 states that colleges and universities can automatically increase tuition without consulting the students and their parents for as long as this is within the national inflation rate determined by the National Economic and Development Authority (Neda).

The re-implementation of Ched Memorandum 13 effectively removes the cap on tuition hikes based on the national inflation rate and the inclusion of miscellaneous fees among the items that require student consultation.

Kabataan party-list already received reports from the student councils and organizations that school administrators, after the release of the new memorandum, are now proposing a bigger percentage rate for tuition and miscellaneous fee hikes that is beyond the inflation rate.

"The government should implement a moratorium on tuition and other fee hikes to avoid a repeat of the collection of illegal tuition and miscellaneous fee increases last year. Private schools and Ched should first settle the issues over the illegal implementation of tuition and other fee hikes this school year under the agency's Memorandum Order No. 14 before approving proposals for another round of school fee increases. Implementing an obsolete Ched Memorandum 13 will only make matters worse," Kabataan National President Raymond Palatino said in their website (http://www.kabataanparty.com).

Kabataan also called on senatorial aspirants to join the students' clamor for an end to unabated tuition and other fee increases and an immediate investigation on the suspension of Ched Memorandum 14.

"This will be the best opportunity for them to prove to us that they are really for the youth and they are running to defend and uphold the interest of young Filipinos particularly to education," Manlupig said.

"Sana wag na silang (Ched) gumawa ng issue, harapin nila yung mga panawagan namin lalo na doon sa refund ng tuition fee (Hopefully, they will not make other issues, and instead face our call for refund in tuition fee)," added Manlupig as Kabataan has urged all higher education institutions in Southern Mindanao to refund the school fees they have collected since the implementation of memorandum 14.

This, after the Committee on Higher and Technical Education of the House of Representatives recently declared the order as illegal, adding that it violates Section 10 of Republic Act 6728.

RA 6728 provides security to the students from tuition increases without consultation. It stipulates that, "in any proposed increase in the rate of tuition fee, there shall be appropriate consultation conducted by the school administration."

Manlupig said among the schools in Davao that have increased fees for the coming school year are Ateneo de Davao (8.2 percent), University of the Immaculate Conception (10 percent), University of Mindanao (11 percent) and the University of the Philippines in Mindanao (300 percent).

The group also challenges newly-elected officials -- local and national -- especially the legislators to deliver on their promises to support youth concerns during the campaign period.

"Ipapakita namin sa June 13 ang galit ang pagkamuhi ng kabataan sa pagwawalang-bahala sa aming mga panawagan (We will show on June 13 how furious we in setting aside our call)," Manlupig said.

Joining Kabataan's rally will be the League of Filipino Students (LFS), Anakbayan, and other campus groups from all over the city.

Ched Regional Director Reynaldo Peña brushed off the pending protest rally, saying it is expected that the students would always reject any form of increase in their tuition fees.

However, he said increases are inevitable and that they are for the improvement on the quality of education offered by the respective educational institutions.

In determining the increase, the institutions usually take into consideration the following factors -- how much the institution needs, how much the client can afford, and the inflation rate.

"The clientele is one of the primary factors in determining an increase," said Dr. Iris Melliza, president of the Association of Private Schools and State Universities and Colleges in Southern Mindanao.

davaoeagle

May 31st, 2007, 10:22 AM

'Mindanao is paradise' — UPMin valedictorian

By JO FLORENDO B. LONTOC

New graduates should strive "for causes greater than themselves," May Anne E. Mata told the class of 2007.

During the 10th commencement exercises of the UP constituent university (CU), Mata asked fellow graduates if they were with her in pursuing this objective. In particular, she urged them to mentor and help people live up to their potentials, and not to get bogged down by the ambition to become rich.

The 147-strong Class of 2007 replied with a resounding "yes" and cheered Mata on as she returned to her seat.

Mata, a Bachelor of Science in Applied Mathematics major with a general weighted average of 1.50, graduated cum laude. She does vocals and composes lyrics for the band Davao Tribe, which is part of the album "Bisdak Republic" and is enjoying much airplay in the Visayas and Mindanao. Music not only helped fund Mata’s education but has become a means to serve people. Her band is known for "Bisayang rap" that deals with the experiences of Visayan youth.

Mata is firmly rooted in Mindanao. She comes from a family of four living in Davaofarms, Lanang, Davao City. Her father, who inspired her to take Math, works for an electrical service business based in the city. Her undergraduate thesis was focused squarely on Mindanao: "Measuring the Diversity and Similarity from Abundance and Incidence Data: The Case of Avifaunal Communities in Mindanao," which was the Best Special Problem Awardee. It sought to apply mathematical equations to Biology, particularly to bird population on the island.

DESIRE TO SERVE

During her speech, Mata expressed what has been traditionally expected of all "iskolar ng bayan’’: The desire to serve the country.

A graduate of UPMin, however, knows that he or she has to live up to additional expectations. UP in Mindanao was instituted to serve the distinct academic needs of Mindanao, a region which has several areas suffering not just from poverty but from problems related to peace and order.

"Mahal ko ang Mindanao. It is paradise," Mata later told the UP Newsletter. She said that she had been to other places and could say that, in comparison, Mindanao’s agricultural potential is vast. "I want to help strengthen its business sector, particularly agriculture."

Immediately after college, however, Mata plans to pass on her knowledge and values by teaching at UPMin. This is in line with her goal to work in the field of human resource development.

"I also want to do research that would apply mathematics to the solutions of the country’s problems," she says.

According to Mata, enrolling in the Mindanao campus was serendipitous. Not only did it work well with her family’s budget, the campus also suited her preference for the simple life, thinner crowd, and proximity to her family. She said she had adjusted to the minor inadequacies which the campus suffers as a young institution and even learned from them. These challenges taught her to focus on what she was in UP for, which was to study so she could serve the country.

She also learned important life lessons from commuting to and from Bago Oshiro, the site of the campus. Using the "habal-habal," or customized motorcycles for hire, she was aware that it was not the safest mode of transport. "Adapt, go with the flow, and learn," she told the UP Newsletter. "If you keep thinking about the risks, you will not move on."

"UP is not, hasn’t been, and will never be a haven of rest because this is a place for active people," she said in her speech. One of the things she learned as a student is that intelligence was not enough to survive in UP. "We’re all intelligent, but how come only some of us survive? UP showed me the need to be well-rounded."

Mata also received the Chancellor’s Medal for Excellence for having the highest GWA among this year’s graduates and the Dean’s Medal for Academic Excellence. Her extra-curricular activities included membership in the student council, math tutoring, organizing a quiz bowl and several outreach programs, and producing and performing in talent shows.

jhunix

May 31st, 2007, 02:38 PM

USEP TOP 2 IN EE BOARD EXAM
The University of Southeastern Philippines ranked second among the top performing schools nationwide (with 10-25 examinees) in the April 2007 Electrical Engineering Licensure Examination given by the Board of EE in Manila, Baguio, Cagayan de Oro, Cebu, Davao, Iloilo and Legazpi. The University obtained a passing percentage of 80 which means that eight (8) out of its 10 examinees passed the board exam. National passing percentage was 33.

For three consecutive years, USEP – EE consistently belonged to the top three schools in the country. In April 2006 licensure exam, the University ranked third among the top performing schools in the country with 10 or more examinees, while in September 2005 board exam, it placed first.

Successful EE licensure examinees of USEP are: Engineers Fred Dominic Faustino, Lloyd Hindap, Sydney Poiter Jubilan, Vic Robert Macias, Rubie Hazel Mamalias, Edrome Rubin, Paul Alberto Saquian, and Alben Monton of USEP Obrero campus, Davao City, and Engineers Raymon Cornites and Mar-loie Catalan of USEP Bislig campus, Bislig City, Surigao del Sur.

Meanwhile, the University obtained a passing percentage of 75 (3 out of 4) in the April 2007 Mechanical Engineering Licensure Examination. National passing percentage was 50.4.

Engineers Gezelle Lou Dacillo, Barry Jules Mercadal, and Paulo Sergio Parnada are the successful ME board examinees of USEP. (USEP PIO)

USEP GRAD 6TH PLACER IN ECE LICENSURE EXAM
The University of Southeastern Philippines (USEP) College of Engineering is pleased to announce that one of its 2006 Electronics and Communications Engineering (ECE) graduates ranked sixth (6th) in the ECE Licensure Examinations given by the Board of Electronics and Communications Engineering in the cities of Manila, Baguio, Cagayan de Oro, Cebu and Iloilo in April 2007.

Engr. Maria Deborah V. Baluran, a cum laude of the 2006 ECE graduates, placed sixth in the said examination. USEP obtained a passing percentage of 78 (14 out of 18) while the national passing percentage was 35 (889 out of 2,534).
Other successful board examinees of the University are: Engineers Aubrey Almacin, Benjie Almasa, Irene Bulan, Jefrey Calawan, Virgilio dela Cruz, Glyzel Dimiao, Rowena May Gumapac, Gina Mae Loreto, Earlmond Maganua,, Rindley Reginio, Luke Anthony Santillan, Janice Sosmena, and Ariel Villareal.

To recall, USEP ranked first among the top performing schools in the country in its category in the November 2006 and November 2005 ECE licensure examinations. (USEP PIO/MCPagkaliwagan)

source:http://www.usep.edu.ph

shyaman

June 1st, 2007, 06:54 PM

CENTRAL PHILIPPINE UNIVERSITY
Jaro, Iloilo City

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The 2nd Gate…

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Flanking 2nd Gate is the billboard advertising the courses offered by the university

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Administration Building

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Stuart Hall

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Half Moon Grounds

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Valentine Hall

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Roblee Science Hall

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Franklin Hall

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Engineering Building

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University Church

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Gymnasium
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Rose Memorial Hall

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Henry Luce III Library

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Swimming Pool Complex

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Loreto Tupaz Building

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Weston Hall

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Anna V. Johnson Hall

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Parade Grounds / Quadrangle

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Eugenio Lopez Hall

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Dr. Alfonso Uy (Student Union) Building

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kiretoce

June 2nd, 2007, 03:22 AM

CPU is a nice campus, is it located near downtown Iloilo City? Oh yeah, too bad there are some bald patches of grass in the quad. But overall, a very quaint and scenic university campus.

ritche

June 2nd, 2007, 03:47 AM

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Scientists here conduct researches with national and international impact.

shyaman

June 2nd, 2007, 06:28 PM

CPU is a nice campus, is it located near downtown Iloilo City? Oh yeah, too bad there are some bald patches of grass in the quad. But overall, a very quaint and scenic university campus.

It's 3-5 km from downtown Iloilo City Kimber. The bald patches of grass are actually due to summer. Water is precious kaya di magawang diligan to maintain it. But they're verdant green all throughout during the wet season.

ritche

June 3rd, 2007, 08:15 AM

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There's a close resemblance between these two buildings...

shyaman

June 3rd, 2007, 01:40 PM

^^ CPU and SU are sister schools and they were both founded by American Baptist Missionaries, that's why.

sugbuanon

June 5th, 2007, 01:07 AM

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university of san carlos - talamban [cebu city]

dos compadres

June 5th, 2007, 06:13 AM

^^ CPU and SU are sister schools and they were both founded by American Baptist Missionaries, that's why.

They're both founded by american missionaries alright (about the same time), CPU was founded by Baptists, but SU was started by Presbyterians (now UCCP).

diehardbisdak

June 5th, 2007, 08:45 AM

^^ USC-TC campus looks refreshing! ....hehehehhe (bias!)

cheftonio

June 5th, 2007, 09:37 AM

semi-OT, just wanna congratulate board passers. check if someone you know also passed. http://www.yehey.com/examresults < ctrl+f to find the name >

ritche

June 5th, 2007, 02:55 PM

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The Silliman College of Business Administration.

Within this building is the business presentation room:
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The lady doing the lecture is former treasurer of the Republic of the Philippines Leonor Briones, who is a professor of the newly reoffered BS Economics degree. Other professor of this degree offered at Silliman are former NEDA director Cielito Habito and former World Bank Director Juanita Amatong.

ritche

June 5th, 2007, 03:02 PM

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ritche

June 5th, 2007, 03:08 PM

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ritche

June 5th, 2007, 03:11 PM

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ritche

June 5th, 2007, 03:50 PM

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Some recent visitors: Bea Alonzo and Sam Milby

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junax

June 6th, 2007, 05:08 AM

Silliman University Library, the country's largest
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may i know why it is the largest in the phil? from what i am seeing, it's only a three storey building. largest building or largest collection of books?

alliele

June 6th, 2007, 07:40 AM

those photos with Bea and Sam are familiar to me. they were shooting for their movie "Close To You". ;)

davaoeagle

June 6th, 2007, 08:26 AM

may i know why it is the largest in the phil? from what i am seeing, it's only a three storey building. largest building or largest collection of books?

good question:cheers:

boju

June 7th, 2007, 06:03 AM

Ateneo de Cagayan High School Class of '56 petitions XU to revert name to Ateneo de Cagayan University

By Mike Baños

A petition signed by disgruntled alumni is now making the rounds of cyberspace and door-to-door asking authorities of Xavier University-Ateneo de Cagayan (XU-AdC) to revert the school's name to simply Ateneo de Cagayan University.

"We are requesting the administration of Xavier University to rename it simply as Ateneo de Cagayan University by filing the necessary amendment to its incorporation papers at the Securities and Exchange Commission, renewing its registration with the Department of Education, and reverting to its original logo and letterhead with the addition of the word University after it," said Manuel Valduehuza, who wrote the petition on the request of his classmates of High School Class 1956.

A portion of the petition reads:

"The term Ateneo is known universally. It is unequivocal. It stands for excellence, dynamism, a crusading zeal. It evokes idealism. It partakes of a unique tradition and a long line of leading lights dating back to Jose P. Rizal, to Claro M. Recto, to Horacio de la Costa S. J., to Leon Ma. Guerrero, to Raul S. Manglapus, to many others. It is a name associated with the ideal of producing men-for-others – the quintessential template for anyone who would march to the cadence of the Fundador de la compañia real de Jesus. It conjures the goal of eloquentia et sapientia, the discipline of Ratio Studiorum, and the depth of The Spiritual Exercises".

"We believe that restoring Ateneo de Cagayan as the school's sole appellation (with no supervening label making it seem like a second thought on its logo) will refocus its students, its graduates and the public on its original vision and mission as well as promote the resurgence of the Animo Ateneo,"he added.

"When the school was renamed to become a University – adopting a name dissimilar to the family of Ateneos – the early Ateneans unwittingly felt sidelined, cut-off from the tradition they helped shape and exemplify, alienated. Then an ambiguous relationship developed between past and subsequent alumni because the latter would not be known solely as Ateneans, exemplars of the Ateneo Spirit."

"Reintegrating our Alma Mater into the lineup of generically named universities, letting its graduates be known simply as Ateneans, will revivify the Ateneo Spirit as the distinctive mark, like tongues of fire, of Jesuit institutions rallying the faithful and rousing past, present, and future generations of Ignatian loyalists."

"We believe that the term Ateneo should remain as the unique trademark and beacon of schools so named at the time of their founding and that there is value in having them projected collectively as a network unique to the Philippines," said Mr. Valdehueza.

Roy Gaane, (H.S. Class 1958), relates an incident some 12 years ago when he was

elected president of the All Ateneo Alumni Association of Southern California.

"Some not well informed alumni from Ateneo de Manila questioned whether Xavier University should be part of the All Ateneo Alumni Association since our school's name was not Ateneo," Mr. Gaane recalls. "My high school batch of 1958 are the last graduates of Ateneo de Cagayan(AdC). The school gained university status after our graduation and was renamed Xavier University. Years later, Ateneo de Manila also gained its university status but the name was not changed. It simply became Ateneo de Manila University."

But another XU-AdC alumni, Fr. Antonio Moreno, S.J. (College '81) who is now president of Ateneo de Zamboanga University, believes the argument is not valid and does not follow.

"I personally don't believe in this crusade," he said. "Xavier is branded internationally in ways that Ateneo is not. There are Xavier Schools, Xavier Universities abroad. The argument that Xavier as a Jesuit school is not known is simply false."

Mr. Valdehueza admits to being miffed at the shabby way with which his batch of 'Golden Jubilarians' (High School Class '56) were purportedly treated during their golden jubilee last year.

"Now is it fair to say that if the Ateneo Spirit were alive, there would have been camaraderie, bonhomie, hail-fellow, well-met! And it didn't help that throughout our days together, there was this ambivalence about how whether the students should be called Ateneans, Xavierites, Xavierians. There's a cognitive dissonance there somewhere."

However, another alumni, Anselmo Boy Mercado, director of the South East Asia Rural Social Leadership Institute, disagrees and labels the issue "moot and academic."

"There is no way the 'die hard' advocates for Ateneo de Cagayan University could win this case. I think we should move on forward to help Xavier University to become a greater school. It is already a great school, but it can always become greater (as the Jesuits say magis, to become better, to be the best that one can be). The name thing is not the most important. There are other better things that the school community (admin, faculty, personnel, students, alumni/ae) should focus on."

However, Mr. Valdehueza disagrees.

"It would be a mistake for the XU administration to view this as purely an administrative issue," he said. "For it is a plaint emanating from the heart and soul of a generation of Ateneans whose Alma Mater and alumni association have been less than fastidious in recognizing its charter members."

"This institution belongs to the community, not to the Jesuits alone. It is part of the city's
heritage and I think the community has a vested right to expect a measure of loyalty from this institution that it supported, nurtured and fed with fine young men and women over the years. Ateneo de Cagayan is intimately bound and bonded to Cagayan and Cagayanons," he added.

But Fr. Moreno concurs with Mr. Mercado.

"It is a nostalgic campaign to go back to the old name simply because the old graduates are clamoring for it. Obviously there are more alumni from Xavier U now than from AdC," Fr. Moreno noted. "Xavier University-Ateneo de Cagayan is the proper (official) name of the institution, not XU. Note the seal of XU, it bears the name of AdC. AdC is still there, but of course it is not known as such nowadays."

Eduardo Montalvan (H.S. Class '62) president of the XU-Ateneo Alumni Association in 1995, said their class first submitted a similar petition to former XU President Fr. Samson some years ago.

"What he (Fr. Samson) did was conduct a consultation/referendum among Jesuits and I was told we lost by about 2 votes," Mr. Montalvan said. "The reason was there are now more XU graduates who can identify themselves with XU rather than Ateneo de Cagayan. Our class, '62, was all for it, even if we already graduated under the new name," he added.

However, Mr. Montalvan now believes the time for it has passed.

"Don't get me wrong. Although I first endorsed it as XU-AAA (Ateneo Alumni Assocaition) President and my class endorsed it too, I agree with Dr. Boy and Fr. Tony that this is now water under the bridge. The question I would ask is where were all these poeple when the name was changed? Where were they when we proposed the change? Why are they bringing this back again, at this time?"

Fr. Moreno also brushed off notions the late Fr. Francisco Araneta,S.J. wanted to perpetuate his surname in the school name.

"Fr. Fritz Araneta believed that it was the intercession of St Francis Xavier that AdC became the first Jesuit university in the country - not because of his namesake that he wanted it renamed. It would be unfair to say that the late Fr Araneta simply wanted to perpetuate the name Francisco."

Source (http://www.kagay-an.com/articles.php?art_id=1587&sec_id=11&cat_id=14)

boju

June 7th, 2007, 06:08 AM

Golden Jubilarians Petition Xavier University to Revert Name to Ateneo de Cagayan University

By Roy Gaane, HS 1958, Ateneo de Cagayan

My fellow alumni and friends,

When I was elected president of the All Ateneo Alumni Association of Southern California 12 years ago, some not well informed alumni from Ateneo de Manila questioned whether Xavier University should be part of the All Ateneo Alumni Association since our school's name was not Ateneo (Ateneo de Cagayan was appended later to Xavier University). I had to educate the not well informed alumni from AdeMU.

My batch of AdeC HS 1958 are the last graduates of Ateneo de Cagayan. The school gained university status after our graduation and was renamed Xavier University. Years later, Ateneo de Manila also gained its university status but the name was not changed. It simply became Ateneo de Manila University.

There were grumblings among the AdeC alumni as to the change of the school's name. But that was it, just grumblings. We were so disciplined not to question the "powers that be". That was then.

Today, the Golden Jubilarians of batch AdeC HS 56 is asking us, alumni, alumnae and friends to sign a petition.... well, read the attachment to understand what it is all about.

Roy Gaane
HS Batch 1958

PS. I signed the petition.

Roy C Gaane
www.kagayanon.com

THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING ATENEO

A Prayer and an Appeal for its Restoration

A name signifies the existence of an entity, setting it apart from all others, indicating its uniqueness or individuality. Like a genetic code, it contains, conveys or transmits the entity’s essential traits, of being, of character, of style. It defines persona or image.

To christen an institution is to establish a distinction and a covenant centered on its name. Thus are its values and traditions enshrined in the minds and hearts of its constituents and alumni. The name becomes a psychic well from which spring their source of identity and the motive force for their loyalty. Use it in vain, or treat it lightly, and it arouses negative passions or resentment. Honor and respect it and it inspires appreciation, zeal, dynamism. It conjures pride and sense of belonging, setting aflame the esprit d’corps that drives the will to protect and advance its well being and burnish its niche on the pantheon of institutions.

Why change?

To change the name is to modify its persona, transmogrifying it into something it was not before, nullifying the old covenant in favor of the new. It is to revise what the institution stands for, to deflect the light it shines upon its adherents as it shunts the past aside to make way for a new future. Ultimately, it reneges on a promise, the promise of continuity and endurance, and alienates – make alien – its offspring from their alma mater.

What profound causes necessitate the change? What compelling reason make it imperative? Is it so important that it is worth expunging what or who had been associated with it? Is it worth alienating the sensibilities of generations of loyalists?

Loyalists and devotees in a time of need

The loyalists of Ateneo de Cagayan were, are, the pre-war pioneers who cleared brush and countryside to make way for its founding as an outpost of Christian education and molder of a new breed of Filipinos in Northern Mindanao. They were the war heroes who offered their lives for the Motherland and the faithful who carted away the Ateneo’s precious book collections and church property to far away Sumilao in Bukidnon that they may not fall to enemy hands. They were the volunteers of Fr. Edward James Haggerty S.J. who risked everything without counting the cost, causing the famed Guerilla Padre to remark that “they were the reason why I love working in the Philippines.”

When war ended, they were the veterans and survivors who came to restore and rebuild the devastated campus -- clearing the debris, coaxing the collapsed structures to rise again, trawling Cagayan River for the truckloads of sand and gravel needed to construct the postwar auditorium. They did so in order that the flame they called Ateneo Spirit would burn bright again and beckon youth to imbibe the animo which gave life to all six Ateneos of the time.

They were the early Ateneans who brought honor and glory to the blue and white standard of Saint Ignatius of Loyola; the army of youth who erected the Chapel of the Immaculate Conception hollow-block-by-hollow-block and filled out the resurgent campus, cementing the streets within its perimeter. They were the fired-up students who launched a “christmas package drive” year after year so that the poor may not be gift-less, who manned the ACIL and spread the faith on Sunday missions in the hinterlands, the Sodalists who visited prison cells and hospitals on weekends to comfort the lonely and the afflicted, and who cleared the rocks and boulders from the heights of Manresa so that a school of agriculture and rural leadership may be founded on its plain. They were Ateneans.

And true to the Ateneo Spirit -- of excellence, of generosity, of being men-for-others, they added luster to the halls of Jesuit academe, to community development and nation building, to the arts and sciences, to sports, and to post-war youth awakening.

Exemplars in normal times

When life and living returned to normal, they were the Boy Scouts and PMT cadets who took pride in escorting the infirm or elderly across streets or in seeing that garbage did not litter the streets of a town that could not yet afford waste receptacles. When they became ROTC cadets, they were the young officers and gentlemen who directed traffic on ordinary days and report for precinct duty on Election Day at a time when the Namfrel or the Jaycees’ Operation Quick Count had yet to be invented. And when they graduated, they were the reserve officers drafted by the AFP in 1953 to oversee the election hotspots in Marawi, Ganassi and other Lanao municipalities “where the birds and bees and even the dead and the beasts” were said to have voted in the 1949 elections.

The school’s renown was such that people were wont to say, “If Cagayan is the capital of Misamis Oriental, surely the Ateneo is the capital of Cagayan!” This was after all the Ateneo that gave parents from afar hope for their non-performing or under-achieving wards; Ateneo de Cagayan to them was the answer to juvenile delinquency because of its Ignatian discipline in loco parentis. And they were not wrong, because seemingly hardened cases invariably turned out well behaved and better motivated by the time the school year ended.

So high was this Ateneo held in esteem that statesmen and ambassadors who came to Cagayan considered it imperative to visit the campus and address its faculty and students.

In 1951 when the Presidential Yacht Apo docked at Macajalar Bay, Pres. Elpidio Quirino proceeded first to the resurgent campus to pay homage to the alma mater of the Guerrilla Padre’s gallant band. In 1953, a distinguished visitor arrived incognito to touch base with the startled faculty and student body (in convocation at the time) – then secretary of national defense, later president, Ramon Magsaysay, who had just been to Claveria on a secret mission. And in 1959, no less than President Carlos P. Garcia selected its campus as the site for the historic conference launching the MINSUPALA (Mindanao-Sulu-Palawan Association). He wanted all the delegates and dignitaries from Luzon, the Visayas and Mindanao to be edified by this fine outpost of nationalism.

But when the school was renamed to become a University – adopting a name dissimilar to the family of Ateneos – the early Ateneans unwittingly felt sidelined, cut-off from the tradition they helped shape and exemplify, alienated. Then an ambiguous relationship developed between past and subsequent alumni because the latter would not be known solely as Ateneans, exemplars of the Ateneo Spirit.

Let’s go back to Ateneo

There are those who argue that the name-change is a fait accompli, water under the bridge not worth dredging up. They say that under its new name, the school has blazed new trails -- chalking up new achievements as it expanded the frontiers of knowledge and its campus beyond all that had been accomplished under the original name. They say the change did not extinguish the glow of its old name since it has been retained, albeit only as an appendage to the new name. They say that in any case, it is now nigh 50 years that “Xavier University” has subsisted -- compared with the mere 26 years that it was just “Ateneo de Cagayan.”

To these nay-sayers, it should suffice to ask: what does it profit the institution if it gains added renown but suffers the loss of it’s “Charter Members,” its early offsrpring, its hardy pioneers and dedicated loyalists? The subsequent achievements are the fruits of the toil and striving of the earlier generations of Ateneans – they whose dedication and commitment laid the illustrious foundation on which the university would later rise. Why couldn’t the status of “University” be simply added to the same name? But the Ateneans were not consulted.

What’s in a name?

The point at issue today is this: the persona and fame of Xavier University derives from the propulsive thrust of the old Ateneo. To the loyalists and to other Ateneos, it’s not just a name. It is identity and animo, which is why attempts to rename the other Ateneos – e.g. Loyola University for Ateneo de Manila -- were fiercely resisted by both their students and alumni. It is also why an insistent call for restoring the name in Cagayan has echoed for decades.

The term Ateneo is known universally. It is unequivocal. It stands for excellence, dynamism, a crusading zeal. It evokes idealism. It partakes of a unique tradition and a long line of leading lights dating back to Jose P. Rizal, to Claro M. Recto, to Horacio de la Costa S. J., to Leon Ma. Guerrero, to Raul S. Manglapus, to many others. It is a name associated with the ideal of producing “men-for-others” – the quintessential template for anyone who would march to the cadence of the Fundador de la compañia real de Jesus. It conjures the goal of eloquentia et sapientia, the discipline of Ratio Studiorum, and the depth of The Spiritual Exercises.

These constitute the original vision of Ateneo, the fortress commanded by the Soldier of Pamplona, defender of the faith par excellence.

An Appeal and a Prayer

This is a prayer and an appeal to the administrators of Xavier University to let the name of Ateneo de Cagayan stand unembellished with only veritas liberabit vos beside it, and refocus everyone on its original vision, mission, and objectives.

If a great city can revert to its old name, as did Leningrad back to St. Petersburg, so can a great school. It would mend the rent in what was once a seamless tapestry of schools bearing the same family name. And it would reconnect severed generations of alumni to their alma mater. Carpe diem!

That all Ateneos may rejoice

Let the unequivocal name of Ateneo ring once more in Cagayan and beyond. Let it no longer be a mere qualifying term, a nickname to a differently named university. Let it no longer stick out like a sore thumb in the lineup of Ateneos. Let the symphony of Ateneo universities in Mindanao, Luzon and Visayas play without the dissonant note of a differently named member. And bring back the fighting spirit of the Crusaders with their battle cries, tried and tested in cheers, cheering squads, and oratorical jousts.

As educational institutions go, the name “Ateneo” is sufficient unto itself, generically identifiable, with a distinctive ring instantly recognizable, universally known and admired. It evokes excellence, a icon in the nation’s educational firmament. To restore it in its Cagayan incarnation will reintegrate and reconsolidate the network of venerable Jesuit institutions unique to the Philippines, reinvigorating it and recharging its generic capacity to influence a Social Order in search of solidarity, peace, and progress.

Let all the Ateneos rejoice in its restoration, returning to the fold that which had adopted a different persona to reassume its place in the family hearth. Then the students and alumni of other Ateneos need no longer be distracted by the dissonant sound of differently-named fellow Ateneans as they march in unison in service to God, country, and people.

Back to the Lord, to the Blessed Mother, and to St. Ignatius

Finally, let the restoration of the name serve to rescue the pre-1959 graduates from oblivion, liberating them from their Limbo-like condition. Long have they felt disenfranchised, cut-off from the mainstream, never having sat in Xavier U classrooms. And let the restoration be effected now, for they are a vanishing breed, their ranks diminishing as each month and year passes.

And when the school is rededicated as Ateneo de Cagayan University, let it be a homecoming for them as for all other alumni to the House of the Lord in the chapel of the Immaculate Conception; there to observe the rubric of Ateneans which centers on Mary’s holy rosary as Saint Ignatius looks down from his unchallenged perch in our lineup of celestial heroes. Surely, St. Francis Xavier would not begrudge this rendering back unto its founder an institution so beloved of his leadership and inspiration.

Is all this worth the simple act of amending Xavier U’s incorporation papers, its registration with the department of education, and its letterhead?

Reintegrating our Alma Mater into the lineup of generically named universities, letting its graduates be known simply as Ateneans, will revivify the Ateneo Spirit as the distinctive mark, like tongues of fire, of Jesuit institutions rallying the faithful and rousing past, present, and future generations of Ignatian loyalists. #

October 2006, Month of the Holy Rosary, City of Cagayan de Oro

By:

The Golden Jubilarians of High School ’56, Ateneo de Cagayan, fellow Ateneans and their friends.

PETITION

TO RENAME XAVIER UNIVERITY simply as

“ATENEO DE CAGAYAN UNIVERSITY”

We Golden Jubilarians of Ateneo de Cagayan and other Ateneans do hereby pray and state, as follows:

WHEREAS, it was not necessary in 1958 for the Ateneo de Cagayan to be renamed in

order to earn the status of a university;

WHEREAS, the higher status could have been indicated by the simple expedient of

adding the term “University” to its original name -- as the Ateneos of Manila, Naga, Zamboanga, and Davao did;

WHEREAS, we believe that the term “Ateneo” should remain as the unique trademark

and beacon of schools so named at the time of their founding and that there is

value in having them projected collectively as a network unique to the

Philippines;

WHEREAS, we believe that being an “Atenean” – and being referred to as such – has

great value in upholding not only the ideals and traditions associated with our

Alma Mater but also in our sense of kinship with other Ateneans everywhere;

WHEREAS, we believe that restoring “Ateneo de Cagayan” as the school’s sole

appellation (with no supervening label making it seem like a second thought

on its logo) will refocus its students, its graduates and the public on its original

vision and mission as well as promote the resurgence of the “Ateneo Spirit”; and

WHEREAS, this petition merely calls for the restoration of the original name in

conformity with the generic naming of all Ateneo universities;

BE IT RESOLVED, AS IT IS HEREBY RESOLVED:

1. To request the administration of Xavier University to rename it simply as “ATENEO DE CAGAYAN UNIVERSITY” by filing the necessary amendment to its incorporation papers at the Securities and Exchange Commission, renewing its registration with the Department of Education, and reverting to its original logo and letterhead with the addition of the word “University” after it;

2. RESOLVED FURTHER, that this be done with due haste in consideration of the dwindling number of pioneer alumni now in their twilight years who, unwittingly feeling sidelined by the name change, wish to be integrated into the roster of graduates bearing no other name than Ateneo de Cagayan University; and

3. RESOLVED FINALLY, that the text entitled: “THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING ATENEO: A Prayer and an Appeal for its Restoration” be attached as the rationale for this resolution.

In the city of Cagayan de Oro, in the Year of our Lord, Two Thousand and Six and on the date(s) indicated in this petition, we have hereunto affixed our signatures and call upon all Ateneo alumni, faculty and students wherever they may be to join hands in reviving the Spirit, the Traditions, and the Animo of Ateneo.

Source (http://www.kagay-an.com/articles.php?art_id=1578&sec_id=3&cat_id=14)

junax

June 7th, 2007, 06:18 AM

^^ i second the motion. kung ateneo ang XU might as well name it ateneo para walang confusion. ateneos de manila, naga, zamboanga, davao and cagayan de oro. 3 ateneos in mindanao... hurray!

bariQ

June 7th, 2007, 08:38 AM

^^nako against ako nyan! :P

junax

June 7th, 2007, 09:21 AM

^^ can you state the reason why?

FrancisXavier

June 7th, 2007, 10:08 AM

may i know why it is the largest in the phil? from what i am seeing, it's only a three storey building. largest building or largest collection of books?

:D XU's has 2 library buildings having 3 and 5 storey. :D

^^ can you state the reason why?

kasi cguro mas known na brand ang "Xavier" internationally.:D ako i want its present name retained.. Why change? It's still ateneo.

Tor

June 7th, 2007, 12:19 PM

sorry double posts

Tor

June 7th, 2007, 12:20 PM

Seriously, what's wrong with Xavier - as a university name? I thought Xavier sounds more intellectual than Ateneo.

ritche

June 7th, 2007, 02:36 PM

may i know why it is the largest in the phil? from what i am seeing, it's only a three storey building. largest building or largest collection of books?

The land area of Silliman Library is quite expansive, it could be like a mall if you see it. It used to be the largest library in Asia when it was constructed but I heard there is a bigger library recently constructed in Shanghai. I haven't seen any official reckoning of the largest libraries in Southeast Asia, more so in the Philippines. But I think it is safe to say that the Silliman library is one of the largest in the Philippines in terms of floor area.

The library system in Silliman is such that each department has its own library. The Silliman main library itself has different sections such as the World Bank section, the American Studies center, the satellite office of the Fulbright, the Cyber library, electronic library, etc.

xavierdude

June 7th, 2007, 03:15 PM

dumaguete is a university town. instead of one definable campus, various SU buildings are scattered throughout dumaguete city. kaya siguro there is that impression.

Amir Al Din Saad

June 7th, 2007, 03:40 PM

its well

Animo

June 7th, 2007, 06:09 PM

Seriously, what's wrong with Xavier - as a university name? I thought Xavier sounds more intellectual than Ateneo.

I would support the name change for the greater glory of the Ateneo's. :D

Trivia:

The term Ateneo has Greek origin and it says come from the temple of Minerva. The Roman goddess of crafts, poetry and wisdom, and is known as the inventor of music. :)

Animo Ateneo! Go Team Fight! Our origins came from a country within the Kingdom of Spain - País Vasco. :lol:

This is the definition from the Real Academia Española dictionary:

ateneo1.

(Del lat. Athenaeum, y este del gr. ᾿Αθήναιον, templo de Minerva en Atenas).

1. m. Cada una de ciertas asociaciones, la mayor parte de las veces científicas o literarias.

2. m. Local en donde se reúnen estas asociaciones.

tj_brewed

June 8th, 2007, 05:40 AM

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www.cit.edu

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The Commision on Higher Education (CHED) in cooperation with the Technical Panel for Information Technology Education (TPITE) identified Cebu Institute of Technology as a Center of Excellence (COE) in Information Technology Education for the period beginning March 1, 2007 to December 31, 2010. Based on the criteria set the TPITE and approved by the Commission, CIT has been recognized in its commitment to the continuous improvement of the field and its capability to serve as a role model in information technology education. As a COE, it shall take a leadership role in assisting other institutions in developing their own IT programs.

The Center of Excellence is higher than the Center of Development for Excellence award which was granted to CIT in 2000.

Only nine out of more than a hundred colleges and universities that vied to be "Centers of Excellence in Information Technology Education" were chosen by CHED. Several of the nine schools are based outside Metro Manila like the Angeles University Foundation in Angeles City, Pampanga, Cebu Institute of Technology in Cebu City, the University of the Cordilleras in Baguio City, UP Cebu, and UP Los Baños in Laguna. In Metro Manila, the educational centers recognized in IT are the Ateneo de Manila University in Quezon City, De La Salle University - Manila, University of the Philippines- Diliman, and Asia Pacific College. CHED Chairman Carlito Puno said that to get recognition, the schools were screened by a technical committee formed by CHED under Republic Act 7722. RA7722 provides a search for centers for educational excellence and development to provide a benchmark of quality education among the country's higher educational institution. He further added that these were the real best schools in IT education because they passed the rigorous screening. The schools were evaluated with regards to the quality of its faculty, its facilities and equipment as well as the research work conducted by its past students.

bariQ

June 8th, 2007, 06:39 AM

^^ can you state the reason why?

well... pagsinabi mong ateneo, ang 1st though ngmga tao at ADMU, taposmay long explanation ka pa, kung Xavier, its in a league of its own.

also nanonotice ko namaraming gus2ng pangalan ateneo just to be close or connected with ADMU,which is not wrong pero gusto ko talaga may sariling identity ang Xavier.which I think is better. kahit anong pangalan naman, hindi mawawala pagka-ateneo ng XU eh

bariQ

June 8th, 2007, 06:41 AM

I would support the name change for the greater glory of the Ateneo's. :D

Trivia:

The term Ateneo has Greek origin and it says come from the temple of Minerva. The Roman goddess of crafts, poetry and wisdom, and is known as the inventor of music. :)

Animo Ateneo! Go Team Fight! Our origins came from a country within the Kingdom of Spain - País Vasco. :lol:

This is the definition from the Real Academia Española dictionary:

ateneo1.

(Del lat. Athenaeum, y este del gr. ᾿Αθήναιον, templo de Minerva en Atenas).

1. m. Cada una de ciertas asociaciones, la mayor parte de las veces científicas o literarias.

2. m. Local en donde se reúnen estas asociaciones.

ang natatandaan ko sa word na athens daw kinuha ang word na ateneo...

junax

June 8th, 2007, 07:07 AM

well... pagsinabi mong ateneo, ang 1st though ngmga tao at ADMU, taposmay long explanation ka pa, kung Xavier, its in a league of its own.

also nanonotice ko namaraming gus2ng pangalan ateneo just to be close or connected with ADMU,which is not wrong pero gusto ko talaga may sariling identity ang Xavier.which I think is better. kahit anong pangalan naman, hindi mawawala pagka-ateneo ng XU eh

you got a point there. in my case, i can't quite agree that the name ateneo is connected to admu, coz everybody knows where zamboanga or naga is. re: identity, we have a lot of xavier schools in the phil. to get confused with too. xavier international school, xavier college, xavier seminary, etc., for me, ateneo word is connected with excellence and anything after that word, be it manila, cagayan or davao is the location identified to have that excellence. sa bagay kanya kanyang opinion lang yan. :)

bariQ

June 8th, 2007, 07:28 AM

^^ true that :D

junax

June 8th, 2007, 10:37 AM

university of immaculate concepcion (main campus, bankerohan, davao city)
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ritche

June 8th, 2007, 12:41 PM

Sera

June 8th, 2007, 02:35 PM

I like Xavier University to just be named that. Kasi kung sinabi mon Xavier U - Ateneo de Cagayan napaka haba na ng pangalan. Gust ko Xavier University lang talaga :)

davaoeagle

June 9th, 2007, 12:12 AM

The bad thing about being only a branch of a big university is that you have to share the resources and the glory. Seriously, a provincial campus, or a campus that is not considered the first or the main campus cannot compete with the main campus. The central campus has to think of itself first before sharing the glory with others. Therefore, it might be very hard for these "satellite" campuses to really attain the glory that is enjoyed by those main campuses.

If you mean provincial campus as in Ateneo de Davao, Cagayan, Zambo, and Naga to be operating under the auspices of the Ateneo de Manila then you are wrong. In the case of the Jesuit universities all campuses are autonomous in all respects save for some consortium in some programs and what have you. FYI!

bariQ

June 9th, 2007, 12:31 AM

^^ marami lang talagang pera ang ADMU! lol!

davaoeagle

June 9th, 2007, 12:36 AM

^^

siempre bariq, nauna kasi sila. naka pondo na baga sila..:lol:

ritche

June 9th, 2007, 08:45 AM

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nick4ubaby

June 9th, 2007, 02:59 PM

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Miguel

June 9th, 2007, 04:06 PM

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The Commision on Higher Education (CHED) in cooperation with the Technical Panel for Information Technology Education (TPITE) identified Cebu Institute of Technology as a Center of Excellence (COE) in Information Technology Education for the period beginning March 1, 2007 to December 31, 2010. Based on the criteria set the TPITE and approved by the Commission, CIT has been recognized in its commitment to the continuous improvement of the field and its capability to serve as a role model in information technology education. As a COE, it shall take a leadership role in assisting other institutions in developing their own IT programs.

The Center of Excellence is higher than the Center of Development for Excellence award which was granted to CIT in 2000.

Only nine out of more than a hundred colleges and universities that vied to be "Centers of Excellence in Information Technology Education" were chosen by CHED. Several of the nine schools are based outside Metro Manila like the Angeles University Foundation in Angeles City, Pampanga, Cebu Institute of Technology in Cebu City, the University of the Cordilleras in Baguio City, UP Cebu, and UP Los Baños in Laguna. In Metro Manila, the educational centers recognized in IT are the Ateneo de Manila University in Quezon City, De La Salle University - Manila, University of the Philippines- Diliman, and Asia Pacific College. CHED Chairman Carlito Puno said that to get recognition, the schools were screened by a technical committee formed by CHED under Republic Act 7722. RA7722 provides a search for centers for educational excellence and development to provide a benchmark of quality education among the country's higher educational institution. He further added that these were the real best schools in IT education because they passed the rigorous screening. The schools were evaluated with regards to the quality of its faculty, its facilities and equipment as well as the research work conducted by its past students.

I've entered the CIT Computer Building when I was in the sales before and it is modern and techy.

Anyway to add the notes there, Silliman University was also recently recognized as a Center of Development in Information Technology Education. With the addition of a new building this year, hopefully it will be upgraded to Center of Excellence. But so far, it is already a milestone for one of the newest colleges of the university.

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The College of Computer Studies (CCS) will have by October this year an additional facility to support its growing population.

Groundbreaking of the new Uytengsu College of Computer Studies Building, now being constructed behind the Uytengsu Foundation Computer Center, took place on May 3. Donated by the Uytengsu Foundation, Inc., the three-storey building will house six laboratory rooms, two lecture rooms and an office.

This year, CCS, formerly College of Information Technology and Computer Science, has been designated by the Commission on Higher Education as a Center of Development in Information Technology Education

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VPFAA Cleonico Y. Fontelo pours his share of cement onto the hole where the time capsule during the groundbreaking ceremony of the Uytengsu College of Computer Studies Building as CSS Dean Dave Marcial, CSS faculty and Rev. Pia look on

tj_brewed

June 9th, 2007, 04:19 PM

^^ congrats to Silliman University for being a C-O-D-E! I'm sure na C-O-E na yan sa susunod! yeeepeeeeeeee!!!!!!

Sinjin P.

June 10th, 2007, 08:01 AM

This thread has been created 600 times and failed 600 times but that just happens when Bakekang butts in :banned:

nicko

June 10th, 2007, 08:14 AM

Silliman Medical Center
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Silliman Medical Arts Building (to start operation next quarter)
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Silliman Medical Arts Building (As of last month)
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Silliman Medical Center and Guardian Healthcare Providers, Inc., a staffing agency based in Tennessee has recently tied up on a pioneering and innovative training program dubbed as the Silliman Medical Center Registered Nurse Professional Development Program to train US-bound registered nurses.

This program is designed to further the goals of both the Hospital and Guardian by providing increased training and professional development opportunities to registered nurses enrolled in the program.

This program is hoped to enhance the clinical competencies and skills of RNs, especially for those who plan to practice their profession in the US.

For Silliman Medical Center, the training program is envisioned to improve the quality of care that it provides to its patients.

Because of this, it is expected that the Hospital will provide a working environment for nurse professionals that will approximate that of US healthcare facilities.

Guardian, on the other hand, will be supporting the Hospital in achieveing its goal of training RN-participants.

This relationship with Guardian may also allow the Hospital to link with healthcare facilities in the US, whereby medical equipment can be handed to the Silliman Medical Center, allowing it to have facilities that will be at par from those being used in the US.

Source: MetroPost June 10, 2007

WawaY[625]

June 10th, 2007, 08:27 AM

I like Xavier University to just be named that. Kasi kung sinabi mon Xavier U - Ateneo de Cagayan napaka haba na ng pangalan. Gust ko Xavier University lang talaga :)

Ateneo de Cagayan na lang gud para uniform :D hehe

ritche

June 10th, 2007, 01:39 PM

This relationship with Guardian may also allow the Hospital to link with healthcare facilities in the US, whereby medical equipment can be handed to the Silliman Medical Center, allowing it to have facilities that will be at par from those being used in the US.

This is indeed a very good development because aside from having that ultra modern building, Silliman Medical Center will also have top of the line equipment and apparatus. And aside from that, its nursing graduates will be assured of employment in the US after graduating from college.

gen1

June 10th, 2007, 01:42 PM

A school can only mold its students. what the student does after he leaves his alma mater is his choice. (kahit nga ang Diyos hindi pinipilit ang tao na maging matuwid sa landas niya)

gen1

June 10th, 2007, 01:57 PM

The Ateneo name

The word and name Ateneo is the Spanish form of Athenæum, which the Dictionary of Classical Antiquities defines as the name of "the first educational institution in Rome" where "rhetoricians and poets held their recitations." Hadrian’s school drew its name from a Greek temple dedicated to Athena, the goddess of wisdom. The said temple, according to the Encyclopedia Britannica, was where "poets and men of learning were accustomed to meet and read their productions."

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Trivia : The school hymn, "A Song for Mary" sounds like the Canadian National Anthem as the melody was adapted from it :)

diehardbisdak

June 10th, 2007, 04:00 PM

UPDATE on USC Law & Business School

USC Law and Business School

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Miguel

June 10th, 2007, 04:29 PM

may i know why it is the largest in the phil? from what i am seeing, it's only a three storey building. largest building or largest collection of books?

I don't think Silliman University Main Library is the largest library of the country now as there are recently new buildings constructed on different campuses around the nation. It was the United States Assistance for International Development (US AID) who constructed the SU Library sometime on the 1970s as the school was being founded by the Americans. At that time, it was considered the largest library of the country. I once worked on that library for a sem during my college years, actually it is not a 3-storey building but rather 4-storey. The last floor is about 2 rooms wide and it contains the outdated books. Some 1930's books are stored there.

What made this library distinct aside from the usual books, cyber library, computer multi media, and online public access catalog which other libraries might have is that it is connected with other international institutions. Within the library is the World Bank's Knowledge Development Center where it is open to the public. Silliman University was given tasks by the World Bank to inform the public on various topics. Noted specialists from all over the world will discuss on different topics via interactive online conference. Silliman University WB-KDC was recently awarded as the best KDC of the country.

What can also be found inside the library is the American Studies Center which was set up by the United States Embassy. Also open to the public with regards to the American culture or any other information related to it.

Exhibits were also held inside the library. Adjacent to the library are the Multimedia Center and Audio Visual Theater where different conferences and film showing were held there.

It's been few years now since I last entered that library so I don't know what are the latest. Ritche mentioned something about the Fulbright extension so maybe that is again another added feature of the library.

Area51

June 11th, 2007, 03:20 AM

An article in the Inquirer today mentioned something about a competition for architecture critique ....

"The History, Theory and Criticism Studio Laboratory of the University of the Philippines College of Architecture, UP Office for Initiatives in Culture and the Arts, and UP Architecture Forum student organization launched the first Honrado R. Fernandez Competition for Architectural Criticism, an essay competition analyzing any characteristic of the designed environment...."
-from Augusto Villalon's Inquirer Article

Can anyone post the winning entries? Or would anybody know a link to the entries?

Thanks.

benjflores

June 11th, 2007, 01:10 PM

wala bang taga pamantasan ng lungsod ng maynila jan..??

ritche

June 11th, 2007, 02:18 PM

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These are photos of soon to open National Bookstore Silliman Branch

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Aside from that, Silliman is also hosting a Jollibee branch. There are also kiosks of several companies and individuals, in addition to student's kiosks which serve as the practicum mostly of business students. Income from these commercial establishments are used to offset rising costs of maintaining Silliman's present facilities, build more facilities, in addition to avoiding rising of tuition fees.

bonixx

June 12th, 2007, 05:30 PM

U/C School Buildings (Holly Rosary Catholic School)
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St. Anne College Lucena in full Expansion
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Philippine Tong Ho Institute Expansion
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Miguel

June 18th, 2007, 09:20 AM

...from the skycrapers made of concrete and steel
let us now shift to the living highrise of woods and leaves...

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a.k.a.
AY Reyes Zoological and Botanical Garden

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SILLIMAN ZOO is a mini forest and the home of the Center of Tropical Preservation (Centrop). This forest serves as a captive breeding ground for some of the country's endangered and endemic species like the Visayan Spotted Deer, Philippine Brown Deer, Philippine Crocodile, Visayan Tarictic Hornbill, Negros Bleeding Heart Pigeon, Reticulated Pigeon, Visayan Warty Pig, Long Tailed Macaque, and Flying Fox (giant fruit bats).

For years now, it has been making conservation efforts for the survival of these species. Some of the offsprings from these captive breedings were distributed to different partner zoos around the world for a greater chance of their survival while some were released back to the wild.

This mini forest is also made up of a collection of different species of trees around the country.

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VISAYAN SPOTTED DEER

One of the most threatened deer species in the world. Now extinct in the islands of Cebu, Guimaras, and Masbate and found only in the remaining forest patches of Negros and Panay islands.

They are herbivores feeding on flowers, berries, grasses, and fruits. Males are differentiated from females by their horns called "antlers".

Conservation Status: ENDANGERED

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PHILIPPINE CROCODILE

The Philippine crocodile is one of the most severely threatened species of crocodiles. The species persist as isolated individuals and small populations in Mindanao, Negros and Mindoro. Confirmed sites include Nabuntaran, Calarian Lake, Macasendy marsh, Liguasan marsh (Mindanao) and the Pagatban river (Negros). Current wild population size may be no more than 100 non-hatchlings.

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it looks small on the picture but when you see it live, it is really huge, about 8 to 10 feet long. some of the crocodiles can also be found at the SU Marine Lab

PHILIPPINE BROWN DEER

The Philippine Brown Deer is originally restricted to the Philippines but was later introduced into the Marianna Islands. It can be found throughout most of the country but hunting caused this species' number to decline. Local extinction has been reported in Catanduanes and Biliran.

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VISAYAN WARTY PIG

The Visayan warty pig is a little-known, small, forest-dwelling pig that has only recently been recognised as a separate species. Historically found throughout the Visayan Islands, this species is now extinct over at least 98% of its former range, with the few surviving populations confined to fragments of remaining habitat on the islands of Negros and Panay.

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what are those lurking in the dark? three little pigs run and hide behind the tree after seeing a big bad wolf

VISAYAN TARICTIC HORNBILL

One of the smaller Philippine hornbills found only on the remaining patches of Negros and Panay islands.

They are omnivores, feeding on fruits, insects, and smaller mammals. They are important pollinators and seeds dispensers, which is a vital role in forest regeneration.

Conservation Status: ENDANGERED

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NEGROS BLEEDING HEART PIGEON

This endemic bird species can be found in lowland dipterocarp and primary forest areas.

It is distinguishable from other bleeding heart pigeons by its elongated red streak.

Its wild populations are limited to the remaining forest fragments of Negros and Panay. With these continuining habitat loss on these islands, the Negros bleeding heart pigeon is now critically endagered.

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RETICULATED PYTHON

It is the longest of the python snakes, with lengths up to 33 feet!

It is the most widespread python species in the world. However, its wild population is heavily threatened by the illegal wildlife trade of its skin, blood, and gall bladder which are used in traditional medicine practices.

These animals are usually killed when encountered by humans.

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LONG-TAILED MACAQUE

These primates are found in primary, secondary, coastal, mangroves, swamps, and forest in Southern Indochina, Burma, Indonesia, Philippines, and India's Nicobar Islands. Because monkeys are naturally tolerant with humans, they may also be found near villages.

Although not endangered, wild populations are severely threatened by habitat loss and illegal pet trade.

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FLYING FOX

Flying fox or fruit bat is endemic to the Philippines and that it is found no where else in the world. This specie is held in captivity only at two facillities in the world which are the Lubee Foundation and CENTROP at the Silliman University in the Philippines.

Status: Declining due to habitat destruction, but still fairly wide-spread and stable

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artificial bat cave; the bats cannot be captured well by the camera because of the thin plastic screen

COLLECTION OF DIFFERENT SPECIES OF TREES

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HOW TO VIEW

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bridge serving as viewing deck

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a forest at the heart of the city

Silliman Zoo is just located behind the Silliman Soccer Ballfied and Archery Range. Only a tall hollowblock wall separate between the two.

FrancisXavier

June 18th, 2007, 04:21 PM

cant hepl it but share the XU's unusual yearbook, este HANDBOOK.

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this is the most handy HANDBOOK i've ever seen.. :D

CDOKAY

June 18th, 2007, 05:27 PM

^^ yeah, that yellow pole; optical illusion lang bah. And then baka naman may slot talaga na paglalagyan to ward off carnappers -- kacarnap carnap ba naman ang kotseng yan...or, baka forever nang naka park yan dyan at nilagyan ng mark ...ahhhh, of pole-larized thoughts. :ohno:

Miguel

June 20th, 2007, 02:57 PM

(this is a repost in connection with Silliman University's conservation efforts)

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Silliman University Marine Laboratory

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Silliman University Marine Laboratory's (now known as Institute of Environment and Marine Sciences) program on marine protected areas was recently adjudged as the Best Higher Education Institutions (HEI) Research Program in the country by the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) during the awarding ceremony last January 25, 2007 at the Philippine International Convention Center, Manila. Silliman received P1 million after it bested 11 other entries with its entry, “The Marine Laboratory Program on Marine Protected Areas”, which details the efforts of the SU Marine Laboratory.

Unknown to many, SU Marine Lab pioneered the establishment of marine protected areas (MPAs) in the country. The program on marine protected areas has the longest record of research, extension and development work on the subject of marine protected areas (MPA) among academic institutions in the country, having been the first to establish an MPA (Sumilon Island) in 1974. It has established 20 MPAs for fishery enhancement and biodiversity conservation in the Visayas and Mindanao and has extended to 61 others in the form of habitat and resource assessments, biodiversity enhancement, and capacity building.

Though it doesn't have the media publicity mileage compared to other research institutions, in a low-profile way it has contributed significantly to this country. It helps maintain the biodiversity of Tubbataha, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, the beaches and diving sites in Bohol, Cebu, and Mindanao which resulted in the influx of tourists inclined in diving, and it was one of the first to respond during the Guimaras Oil Spill.

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SU Marine Laboratory

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Marine Botany

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Biochemistry

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Invertebrate

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Vertebrate

The country's first marine protected area was the Sumilon Island in Cebu in 1974 but due to politics (the Abines, notoriously known for being a warlord and for his illegal fishing business) the program was aborted. The first successful community managed protected area was the Apo Island in Dauin, Negros Oriental, world reknowned for the abundance of its marine life. related story here (http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=306989&page=6)

It used to be an island whose seas and marine life were ravaged and damaged by illegal fishing methods, but through proper education, it has dramatically changed into a world reknowned diving destination. It has now become a model for a community managed marine protected area which was then replicated in other areas in this country and abroad. Today, tourists from all over the world have come to dive in this island as it is one of the world's best diving sites. In fact, a giant replica of the Apo Island was created at the world's biggest aquarium, the Shedd Aquarium of Chicago. It has now become a permanent fixture in that aquarium and it advertised to the whole world the abudance of marine resources in our country.

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Rock Formation Near Apo Island

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Tourist Peacefully at Rest in Apo Island

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Paradise of the Deep

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Shedd Aquarium Interactive Game
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SU Marine Lab is also the home of the 2nd largest whale bone collection in Asia

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Asia's 2nd Largest Whale Bone Collection

It is also the home of some of the country's endangered animals. There is a captive breeding of the endangered Philipine Crocodile, Turtles, and also the Giant Clams. (Silliman also has a mini forest for the other endangered animals which will be featured soon.)

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Giant Clam Tank

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Mangrove Garden

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Philippine Crocodile

Students from all over the world have come to Silliman to take undergraduate, masteral, and doctorate degrees in Marine Sciences.

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Marine Science Student with a Local

SILLIMAN TOO HAS ITS OWN BEACH FRONTING SU MARINE LAB

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Silliman Beach

SILLIMAN UNIVERSITY MARINE LABORATORY

- Center of Excellence in Coastal Resources Management
- Center of Development in Marine Sciences
- Center of Excellence in Biodiversity Conservation
- Supported by the Smithsonian Institute
- Supported by the Haribon Foundation
- Supported by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID)
- connected with other foreign schools

bedista

June 20th, 2007, 05:14 PM

El Colegio de San Beda
Mendiola St., San Miguel District, City of Manila

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Montseratt Abbey
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Apotheosis, paintings in the ceiling of the abbey
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St. Bede's Building
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Centennial PLaza
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Batibot
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Bedan ladies
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Sabater Court
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Courtyard beside Montseratt Abbey
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The old gate, with the heraldic griffin guarding it
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the Gothic Facade
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1930's
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More pics nxt tym, :)

davaoeagle

June 20th, 2007, 06:22 PM

San Beda's campus is cool too. I wish the photos were bigger so everyone could appreciate them better. :okay:

tigidig14

June 21st, 2007, 03:50 AM

what school in pnas that usually has the biggest foreigner pop.?

ritche

June 21st, 2007, 05:07 AM

5-7% (250-300++) of Silliman population in recent years are foreigners composed of Koreans, Japanese, Chinese, Southeast Asians, Middle Easterns, Africans, some Europeans and Americans. As of last year, foreign population of Silliman is composed of students from 24 other countries.

Aside from that, there are exchange students and students from other colleges/universities in the United States and some Asian countries such as Korea and Japan that come to Silliman from time to time on specialized short courses and tours.

praetorian^8

June 24th, 2007, 02:26 AM

Loyola Schools professors/scientists win 2007 NAST awardsdate posted: 2007-06-18 13:43:35

Several faculty members from the Loyola Schools won awards from the National Academy of Science and Technology (NAST) in 2007.
From the School of Science and Engineering (SOSE), the awardees were Dr. Paulito P. Palmes, who was named Outstanding Young Scientist in the field of Engineering; Dr. Regina C. So, who won the NAST Du Pont Talent Search for Young Scientists; and Dr. Fabian M. Dayrit and Dr. Ma. Louise Antonette N. Delas Peñas, who each received the award for Outstanding Scientific Paper.

From the School of Social Sciences (SOSS), Dr Czarina Saloma-Akpedonu was named Outstanding Young Scientist in the Field of Sociology.

The awarding ceremonies will be held during the NAST Annual Scientific Meeting on July 12, 2007 at the Manila Hotel. The awardees will each receive a cash prize and a plaque.

Dr. Palmes is an assistant professor in the Department of Information Systems and Computer Science. He obtained his MS Computer Science degree from the Ateneo de Manila University and got his Doctor of Engineering degree from the Toyohashi University of Technology. He has several publications to his name and continues to be active in research in neural networks, evolutionary computations, intelligent agents, optimizations and evolutionary neural networks.

Dr. So is an assistant professor in the Department of Chemistry. She obtained her PhD in Organic Chemistry from the University of Connecticut. She is awarded for her research entitled “Approaches to the synthesis of THE glycosphingolipids.” She has also done work in organometallic materials for use as catalysts, and has started work on molecularly imprinted polymers.

Dr. Dayrit is a professor of chemistry and currently the dean of the School of Science and Engineering. He is being awarded for his research work with Dr. Marissa G. Noel entitled "Triterpenes in the Callus Culture of Vitex negundo L." This paper was published in the Philippine Journal of Science, Vol. 134, 2005.

Dr. Delas Peñas, an associate professor in the Department of Mathematics, won for her research work with Fr. Antonio Basilio, SJ, entitled "On vertex-colorings of Archimedean tilings with applications in molecular symmetry." This paper was published in the Loyola Schools Review-School of Science and Engineering 2004 edition.

praetorian^8

June 24th, 2007, 02:41 AM

Sophia proposes tie-up with Ateneo, 3 other Jesuit Universities in Asia
date posted: 2007-04-01 10:15:00

To further develop its academic linkages, Sophia University of Japan, an active partner of Ateneo for more than 20 years, is spearheading a training program to be held in Tokyo, Japan that will involve the Ateneo and other Jesuit universities in Asia. This was announced by the Sophia University officials who visited the Ateneo on March 5, 2007.
The Sophia delegation was led by Dr. Linda Grove, vice president for academic exchange, professor Takefumi Terada, dean, graduate School of Global Studies, and Masaaki Yoshino, deputy director, Overseas Liaison Office.

The program provides an opportunity for students from the four Jesuit schools - Fu Jen Catholic University (Taiwan), Sogang University (Korea), Sophia University (Japan), and Ateneo de Manila University - to interact and to learn about leadership and international understanding.

The Sophia delegation with Ateneo administrators (from left to right) Mr. de Leon, Dr. Dayrit, Dr. Ruiz, Mr. Yoshino, Dr. Grove, Dr. Angeles, Dr. Cuyegkeng, Prof. Terada, and Fr. Currie.

Present at the meeting were Ateneo administrators led by Dr. Antonette Palma-Angeles, academic vice president, and Dr. Maria Assunta Cuyegkeng, vice president for the Loyola Schools. Fr. Jose Magadia, SJ, associate dean for academic affairs; Fr. William Currie, spiritual adviser of Arrupe International Residence; Fr. Jose Cruz, SJ, dean of the School of Social Sciences; Dr. Fabian Dayrit, dean of School of Science and Engineering; Dr. Marijo P. Ruiz, Department of Mathematics faculty; and Glenn de Leon, assistant to the academic vice president for international programs, were also on hand during the meeting.

Sophia University is also exploring the possibility of sending its science majors to Ateneo for a short-term program combining English language training and seminars in different scientific fields.

praetorian^8

June 24th, 2007, 03:00 AM

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tigidig14

June 24th, 2007, 04:12 AM

gee

June 24th, 2007, 04:28 AM

praetorian^8

June 24th, 2007, 09:35 AM

praetorian^8

June 24th, 2007, 09:39 AM

university of san carlos (cebu) has a good international program under the office of international linkages. This includes (a) visiting scholars program (b)visiting graduate researchers program (c) internship program (d) student exchange program (e) training program (f) educational partnerships

for more information visit: http://www.usc.edu.ph/international_linkages/international_linkages.jsp

Ateneo forges linkages with Europe

date posted: 2007-04-02 08:16:00

In line with the university’s internationalization thrust, Ateneo continues to broaden its collaboration and linkages with European universities. Representatives from the Embassies of Netherlands, France and Italy were received by Ateneo on March 12 to 13, 2007 to discuss cooperation between their universities and Ateneo.

On March 12, His Excellency Robert Vernis, Ambassador of Netherlands to the Philippines, met with Ateneo President Bienvenido F. Nebres, SJ, to discuss future academic linkages. Dr. Antonette Palma-Angeles, academic vice president; Dr. Assunta Cuyegkeng, VP for the Loyola Schools; Fr. Jose Cruz, SJ, dean, School of Social Sciences; Dr. Ma. Leovino Garcia, dean, School of Humanities; Dr. Antonio G.M. La Viña, dean, Ateneo School of Government; Dr. Violet Valdez, acting chair, Department of Communication; and Mr. Glenn de Leon, assistant to the academic vice president, were also present to talk about possible programs of their schools.

The Ateneo School of Government (ASG) is interested in Netherlands’ programs on adaptation and climate change which can enhance its programs in good governance. On the other hand, Ambassador Vernis and Father Cruz explored the possibility faculty exchange between Dutch universities and Ateneo. Father Cruz would also want to open a window of opportunity to the European Studies students which will expose them to the Dutch culture.

In addition, Dr. Angeles discussed the possibility of sending Ateneo Law School students to study for a short period in the Netherlands in order to be exposed to a value-based law system. The ambassador also promised to send information regarding a 6-month fellowship program in the Netherlands for students and faculty.

On March 13, Loyola Schools administrators headed by Fr. Nebres welcomed the French Embassy delegation, Mr. George Gaston Feydeau, Counselor for Cooperation and Cultural Affairs, and Ms. Alix Lavaud, Linguistic Attaché.

Discussed during the gathering are the opportunities for linkage with FNEGE, France’s Association of Business Schools. The linkage will help the academic collaboration with different management schools in France. Each party was also updated with the latest events and programs concerning the academic cooperation between France and the Philippines.

Students and faculty members of the School of Social Sciences and the School of Humanities were encouraged to join graduate programs in France.
Mr. Feydeau was very helpful in suggesting organizations to work with to develop programs and linkages in Europe.

French Universities have been valuable partners to Ateneo. They send the most number of exchange students. For school year 2006-2007, a total of 25 French students came to Ateneo under an exchange program. Likewise, many of our students choose France as their priority study abroad destination for Junior Term Abroad program.

Italian Embassy’s cultural attaché, Mrs. Emanuela Adesisni, expressed her enthusiasm in having future tie-ups between Ateneo and Italian Universities. Dr. Angeles, together with Fr. Rene Javellana, SJ, Chair of Fine Arts Program and Dr. Rosula Reyes, Professor of Electronics, Communications, and Computer Engineering discussed with Mrs. Adessini prospective programs in Italy that faculty and students can participate in.
It will be a good opportunity for the Fine Arts students to spend a semester in art schools in Italy and immerse in Ancient Rome’s center of arts and architecture. This can replace some modules in their program. Meanwhile, the School of Science and Engineering is gearing their faculty and students for possible seminars, conferences and workshops in Italy’s top technological universities. They are eyeing the cities of Turin, Padova and Rome. Ateneo is currently looking for programs with Italy that focus on satellite and mirco electronic technologies. Ms. Adessini also promised to link Ateneo to Bocconi School of Management, reputed as the best business school in Italy.

The Italian embassy proudly offers Italian language scholarships to deserving students. Ateneo will be privileged to receive information on scholarships and possible programs in Italy.

praetorian^8

June 24th, 2007, 09:42 AM

demented_pigeon

June 24th, 2007, 09:45 AM

^^ psst. hoy baka isipin na competition ito sa pagitan ng ADMU at USC...

demented_pigeon

June 24th, 2007, 09:46 AM

praetorian^8@ may pictures ka ng Leong Hall? para maipakita naman sa mga tao.

praetorian^8

June 24th, 2007, 09:49 AM

university of san carlos (cebu) has a good international program under the office of international linkages. This includes (a) visiting scholars program (b)visiting graduate researchers program (c) internship program (d) student exchange program (e) training program (f) educational partnerships

for more information visit: http://www.usc.edu.ph/international_linkages/international_linkages.jsp

Ateneo ties up with UN-mandated University for Peace

date posted: 2007-04-03 12:31:37

ADMU-UPEACE MOU signing for the Dual-Campus Master’s Program in International Peace Studies. Ateneo de Manila University has been selected as the Asia-Pacific campus for the Dual-Campus Master’s Program in International Peace Studies, an initiative of the United Nations-mandated University for Peace, or UPEACE, and the Nippon Foundation.

To be inaugurated on April 10, 9 a.m., at the School of Social Sciences, Ateneo de Manila University, Loyola Heights, Quezon City, the 19-month intensive academic program is designed to enable students from diverse cultures and backgrounds to attain a deep understanding of the central issues of peace and security which will determine the future of humanity. It invests in people working for peace in the Asia-Pacific region, especially the countries where English is not widely used. A memorandum of understanding was entered into between ADMU and UPEACE on October 17, 2006.

Mr. Yohei Sasakawa, chairman of the Nippon Foundation which will provide financial support for the ADMU-UPEACE Dual-Campus Master’s Program in International Peace Studies.

Ambassador Alberto Romulo, secretary of the Department of Foreign Affairs, has been invited to keynote the inauguration. The event will also be attended by Yohei Sasakawa, chairman of the Nippon Foundation, which will provide full scholarships to all students who will be accepted in the program.

Thirty professionals from 12 Asian countries have been admitted to the first batch of the Dual-Campus Master’s Program in International Peace Studies. The program begins with a five month content-based language instruction module at the Ateneo de Manila. After the language training phase, the group will travel to Costa Rica to take the regular courses for the MA International Peace Studies at the UPEACE headquarters in San Jose, Costa Rica. At the end of the term, the students will return to Manila where they will undertake several courses offered by the Ateneo de Manila University. Towards the end of the program, the students are expected to develop an internship in international or nongovernment organizations in the Philippines.

To date, more than 300 people from around the world have already had the opportunity to study at UPEACE and are currently working in a wide range of international and nongovernment organizations, government institutions and agencies, private companies and universities.

UPEACE is a treaty organization created within the framework of the United Nations, pursuant to Resolution 35/55 of the General Assembly in December 1980 to support the central peace and security objectives of the UN. Its mission is to provide humanity with an international institution of higher education for peace with the aim of promoting among all human beings a spirit of understanding, tolerance, and peaceful coexistence, to stimulate cooperation among peoples and to help lessen obstacles and threats to world peace and progress.

praetorian^8

June 24th, 2007, 09:50 AM

praetorian^8@ may pictures ka ng Leong Hall? para maipakita naman sa mga tao.

I have no time pa kasi punta ng school, well, busy.

demented_pigeon

June 24th, 2007, 09:52 AM

^^ tapos ka na bang mag-aral?

praetorian^8

June 24th, 2007, 09:52 AM

praetorian^8

June 24th, 2007, 09:55 AM

^^ tapos ka na bang mag-aral?

well, i graduated already.

ok.

WawaY[625]

June 24th, 2007, 10:22 AM

ritche

June 24th, 2007, 01:20 PM

ritche

June 24th, 2007, 01:58 PM

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Artists rendition of the Twin Portals Building.

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Silliman Portal West Building now, still unfinished but already occupied by National Bookstore.

When all the ongoing infrastructure projects in Silliman are finished, it shall have one of the most beautiful and modern campuses in the Philippines, with updated facilities.

Photos courtesy of SUACONA

davaoeagle

June 24th, 2007, 11:48 PM

It is not a competition, i just presented some old and new International likages ng ateneo.

ok.

agree! :cheers:

Miguel

June 25th, 2007, 08:53 AM

Silliman University Higala International-Students from Around the World
(HI-SAW)

HI-SAW is the student organization of foreign students in Silliman. There are more than 200 foreign students in Siliman University from more than 20 countries. The only continent that has yet to produce a student in Silliman is Antarctica. This influx of foreign students in Silliman is nothing new as for many decades now these expats have come and go in the halls of Silliman. The school has been a melting pot for different nationalities, culture, and religion even way back on its early years. This was way before this current wave of Korean students. Silliman is often dubbed as an unofficial international school.

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Mr. and Ms. SU International

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Some of the contestants on this friendly competition were Brian Wagey and Precy Ann Cua (Indonesia), Fiona Jade Lim (China), Aurora Basha Benti Latif (Malaysia), Treana Marie Havranek (USA), Glenna Christina Duch (Denmark), Joo-Young Park and Joohye Park (Korea), Mohaddeseh Faghani and Tedrick Norouzi (Iran), Tina Taube and Patrick Fehr (Germany), Muneer Ali Adel Abu Rumman (Jordan), and Japheth Anyaji (Nigeria).

This is a benefit contest were all of the proceeds will be donated to their Korean friend Samuel Kim Jungseong who earlier had a vehicular accident and needs to have a neuro-surgery operation.

Korea, Iran bets crowned 2006 Mr. and Ms. SU International
Written by John Steve A. Lancin
Wednesday, 20 September 2006

Mr. Korea and Ms. Iran bested 12 other fellow foreign candidates when they won this year’s 1st Mr. and Ms. SU International, which was organized by the Higala-Students Around the World (HI-SAW) organization. The coronation night was held last September 15 at the Luce Auditorium.

Meanwhile, Mr. Japan You Ji Kusumi and Ms. Indonesia Precy Ann Cua won as 1st runners-up, while Mr. Iran Tedrick Norouzi and Ms. Malaysia Aurora Basha Benti Latif were named 2nd runners-up.

Also awarded Mr. Infinity Smile, Park said that the presence of his father, who came from Korea to watch the show, made him feel great. “I’m so happy, it’s a great deal to win the crown and help others at the same time,” Park expressed.

On the other hand, Faghani commented on her representing Iran, “I take with me the responsibility to correct the misconceptions of our country.”

As of press time, the estimated amount raised is approximately Php150,000. The organizers are still deciding how much will be given for fellow HI-SAW member Korean Samuel Kim Jungseong’s medical expenses.

Jungseong, who was hospitalized after a motorcycle accident, also went up the stage with his family during the program. His father thanked the Silliman community for the support and help they have been given.

HI-SAW President Naoki Mayuzumi, before serenading the candidates, said that everyone’s hard work for the event’s success was worth it, because they were able to help a fellow student. “[Upon] seeing the audience, I don’t remember all the messed-up things [during the preparation] anymore,” said Mayuzumi.

In addition, Mr. Nigeria and Ms. China got the highest number of minor awards; and both Mr. and Ms. Indonesia got the best in Talent award.

Some of the Contestants of Miss Silliman

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(Iran and USA)

During my college years, most of my foreign classmates were Indonesians. I also had a friend from Zaire (formerly Congo) who was multi lingual. The soccer match during intramurals was somewhat like an Asian game as the College of Arts and Sciences were composed mostly of Koreans while the College of Business Administration were composed of Indonesians.

davaoeagle

June 26th, 2007, 04:48 AM

Groundbreaking ceremony for the construction of the St. Ignatius of Loyola statue in ADDU

June 26, 2007

Last Saturday, June 23, 2007, a groundbreaking ceremony for the construction of the St. Ignatius of Loyola statue was held in a prominent part of the High School grounds at our AdDU Matina campus. A project of this year's Silver Jubilarians, High School Batch 1982, the statue will have a base dimension of 3 ft by 6 ft width, 6 ft. height. The statue itself will be have a height of 4.5 feet.

The groundbreaking ceremony was preceded by a Mass with our Fr. President Antonio S. Samson S.J. as presider, with Fr. Oscar Millar S.J., AdDU Grade School Chaplain; Fr. Angel Antonio, a visiting Jesuit who labored in various mission parishes in Zamboanga del Sur for 43 years; and myself as concelebrants.

The actual ceremonial groundbreaking was done by Fr. Samson with Mr. Winston R.B. Gamir (GS'78, HS'82 and AdDU HS Batch 82 President), Dr. Gilbert E. Cauilan (GS'78, HS'82, BS Bio'86 and Ateneo de Davao Blue Knight Alumni Association President), and myself. A number of HS 82 batchmates, their families and friends were in attendance in this worthy undertaking.

Congratulations to AdDU High School Batch 1982 better known as AT2! Fortes in Fide! Animo Ateneo!

See pictures below. I thank the good number of alumni and alumnae who sent email of appreciation and encouragement and shared their sentiments upon viewing the "photo essay" epost on the Landmarks in the vicinity of our Jacinto Campus.

with warm regards and best wishes,

Fr. Renato C. Ocampo, S.J.
Alumni Director
Ateneo de Davao University
alumnidir@addu.edu.ph
Alumni Office Tel: (082) 221-2411 local 8227
Alumni Office Mobile: +63 921 616-0484
http://www.addu.edu.ph

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Aound the St. Ignatius de Loyola statue (clockwise starting from top left): the High School classrooms, the sports open field, the Matina Sports Complex, and the High School administration building

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Fr. Antonio Samson S.J. with concelebrants (l-r): Fr. Renato Ocampo S.J., Fr. Oscar Millar S.J. and Fr. Angel Antonio S.J. offering Holy Mass in the High School Chapel

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Fr. Samson leading the groundbreaking with (l-r): Mr. Wintson Gamir, Fr. Renato Ocampo S.J., and Dr. Gilbert Cauilan

praetorian^8

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Lance Gokongwei, the country's Entrepreneur of the Year, CEO of Cebu Pacific and Chairman of Robinsons Land Corp. exchanges pleasantries with Silliman President Ben Malayang and former National Treasurer Leonor Briones inside the Silliman Library.

ATENEO DE MANILA UNIVERSITY

Board of Trustees

BOARD OF TRUSTEES

MR. MANUEL V. PANGILINAN – Chairman of the Board (CEO PLDT)

FR. JOAQUIN G. BERNAS, S.J.

MR. BENJAMIN CHING

FR. JOSE M. CRUZ, S.J.

MR. EDUARDO L. DAVID

MR. EDWARD S. GO

FR. DANIEL P.L. HUANG, S.J.

FR. JOHNNY C. GO, S.J.

FR. JOSE C. J. MAGADIA, S.J.

FR. BIENVENIDO F. NEBRES, S.J.

DR. MARI-JO P. RUIZ

GOV. GABRIEL C. SINGSON

DR. MA. CECILIA G. SORIANO

FR. JOEL E. TABORA, S.J.

FR. JOSE R. T. VILLARIN, S.J.

kiretoce

June 28th, 2007, 04:55 PM

Where a new generation of artists are trained (http://www.mb.com.ph/YTCP2007062896741.html)

De La Salle Philippines makes a compelling statement in support of the creative industries with the launching of De La Salle–College of Saint Benilde’s School of Design and Arts campus.

Located along Pablo Ocampo Street in Malate, Manila, the 14-storey academic complex created by Lor Calma Design, Inc. is the most advanced DLS–CSB building to date and undoubtedly one of the most progressive college grounds in Asia.

"This is probably the first building of its kind that manifests the multidisciplinary teaching approach of the school," says design principal Eduardo Calma. "The building takes its form from the spirit of design creativity; nothing was pre-conceived. This way, it would provide a much more stimulating learning environment compared to the usual box with corridors and flat lines."

Envisioned as a home for a new generation of artists and designers, Calma explains that the structure is a "vertical campus" which establishes visual interest with a sophisticated façade done in aluminum cladding, full glass curtain walls and intricate, multifaceted details. The interiors are bathed in natural light, with huge glass windows providing ample ventilation throughout the hallways – features that also help the building cut down energy consumption. The spacious corridors double as exhibition spaces, while the glass-paneled classrooms are marked by distinctive folded walls.

It is also the first building in the country equipped with G-10 technology, breaking down temporal and spatial barriers with its ability to hook up to ongoing arts-related events, anywhere in the world, in real time.

"If you have a place that already teaches you a vocabulary of space, then you already establish a kind of language for design and arts," avers Calma. "That makes the building a tool for education."

"The concept of the building encapsulates the unique features of the school," agrees Bro. Edmundo Fernandez FSC, Interim President and Chairman of the Board of DLS-CSB. "We have signature programs not offered as degree courses anywhere else. Our facilities and laboratories are governed by new technology. Our students have both professional educators and expert industry practitioners as mentors, keeping our curriculum abreast with the latest trends in the creative industry. We really invested in this school. I don’t think there’s any other academic institution in the country that has put as much outlay or confidence in the field of design and arts. We just did."

Following the learner-centered approach in education, the SDA building is replete with exhibition spaces, performances venues and studio facilities to enrich the student’s hands-on experience. These include the Museum of Contemporary Art and Design, the SDA Cinema and film archive room, sound recording and production studios, workstations for animation and video production, studios for filmmaking and photography, a Black Box performance space and two ballet studios with fireproof costume rooms, among others.

However, the most eyecatching structure is the 558-seat theater, cantilevered about four stories above the ground and hanging intriguingly over the entrance driveway – stylishly providing both an iconic image for the design school and a dynamic façade for the entire building.

The school currently caters to 12 programs that offer degrees in Animation, Arts Management, Digital Filmmaking, Fashion Design and Merchandising, Multimedia Arts, Music Production, Photography, Production Design, Technical Theater, Industrial Design, Performing Arts major in Dance (in consortium with Ballet Philippines dance progam), and Interior Design (in consortium with the Philippine School of Interior Design).

With these and other innovative courses that will be made available soon, the DLS-CSB administration is convinced that graduates from their School of Design and Arts will easily find productive work in the creative industry, one of the fastest growing sectors with a yearly contribution of some .5 million to the global economy.

ritche

July 2nd, 2007, 11:30 AM

Top 5 (autonomous) universities in Region 7, acording to the Commission on Higher Education (not in proper order)...

1. University of San Carlos (Cebu)
2. Holy Name University (Tagbilaran)
3. University of San Jose Recoletos (Cebu)
4. St. Paul University (Dumaguete)
5. Silliman University (Dumaguete)

tj_brewed

July 2nd, 2007, 12:29 PM

A quick tour within CIT - Cebu Institute of Technology's Campus.

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ritche

July 3rd, 2007, 02:43 AM

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A growing awareness of their common mission was developed among Christian institutions of higher learning, which had been meeting for more than twenty years in annual Presidents' Conferences for Asian Christian Universities and Colleges, sponsored by the United Board for Christian Higher Education in Asia. The felt need was for an organisation that would pool the unlimited human and improving technical resources of these institutions for their mutual benefit as well as that of the whole region. Their successive meetings presented in sharp focus the challenges and opportunities that the rapidly changing conditions of a resurgent Asia bring to them, and inspired in them the vision of a closer cooperation and united efforts, dedicated to Christian witness and service in education.

The Association of Christian Universities and Colleges in Asia (ACUCA) was formally established at a founding conference held on December 6-9, 1976 in Manila. Participated in by 22 institutions, the conference launched the initial step in the words of Dr. Daniel C.W. Tse, toward "more initiative and responsibility in planning, working and sharing together on a regional basis."

It was during the 12th Presidents' Conference which was held in Taipei in April 1975 that the idea was first conceived for such an association that would actively and independently plan programs and strengthen ties among the Asian institutions. Relevant to the changing times and new challenges in the Asian situation, Dr. Paul Lauby, executive director of the United Board for Christian Higher Education in Asia, proposed the establishment of a regional association. The participants in the Presidents' Conference agreed unanimously and subsequently created an executive committee which took charge of studying the feasibility for such an organisation. The committee reviewed the ideas presented at the Presidents' Conference and formulated some recommendations, and thereafter elected a planning committee composed of the following members: Dr. B. Koh of South Korea, Dr. Sutarno of Indonesia, Dr. P. S. Job of India, Dr. Agustin Pulido of the Philippines, and Dr. S. W. Tam and Dr. Deniel C. W. Tse of Hong Kong.

A series of meetings and consultations followed - particularly with the All-India Association for Christian Higher Education and Development and the United Board. By January 1976, the final draft of the ACUCA constitution was completed.

The following were elected ACUCA officers at the Manila conference: Dr. Daniel C. W. Tse of Hong Kong Baptist College, President; Dr. Quintin S. Doromal of Silliman University (Philippines), Vice-President; Fr. Joseph Pittau, S. J. of Sophia University (Japan), Treasurer; Fr. Jose Cruz, S. J. of Ateneo de Manila University (Philippines); Dr. Hsieh Ming-san of Tunghai University (Taiwan); Dr. Woo-Choo Lee of Yonsei University (Korea); and Dr. Sutarno of Satya Wacana Christian University (Indonesia), Board Members; and Dr. victor Ordonez of De La Salle University (Philippines), Secretary-General. They composed the Executive Committee.

ACUCA's founding members were: Hong Kong - Chung Chi College and Hong Kong Baptist College; Indonesia - Universitas Kristen Indonesia, Petra Christian University, Satya Wacana Christian University, and Parahyangan University; Japan - International Christian University and Sophia University; Korea - Ewha Woman's University, Sogang University, Soong Jun University, and Yonsei University; Pakistan - Kinnaird College for Women; Philippines - Ateneo de Manila University, Central Philippine University, De La Salle University, Philippine Christian University, Silliman University, and Trinity College of Quezon City; Thailand - Payap College; and Taiwan - Fu Jen University, Tunghai University, and Soochow University.

Guests who were made co-opted members were All-India Association for Christian Higher Education and the Christian Conference of Asia.

During the conference, Bro. Gabriel Connon, FSC, President of De La Salle University, offered his university as the host of the ACUCA Secretariat. To serve as advisory committee to the Secretariat were the presidents of Philippine member-institutions, although the major decisions were to be made by the Executive Committee.

The task of organizing the Secretariat was left with Dr. Victor Ordonez. Having formalized its legal identity, he started the publication of a newsletter and established links with other organisations. An educational management workshop and a regional student exchange conference were the Association's initial projects. Preparations were made for the in-country workshops to assess the Christian character and mission of member-institutions. The position papers resulting from those workshops were to be presented in the General Assembly biennial conference scheduled in Hong Kong.

In May, 1978, Dr. Wilfrido V. Villacorta was appointed to succeed as Secretary-General Dr. Ordonez, who received a research fellowship from the East-West Center. Based on the guidelines prepared by his predecessor for the in-country workshop, Dr. Villacorta prepared a concept paper on the needs and objectives of Asian Christian colleges and universities, and possible projects for the Association. In his visit to member-countries, the concept paper was discussed in preparation for the workshops. He also gathered ideas from the academic communities of member-schools, which were to be the basis of the draft Five-Year Development Plan prepared by the Secretariat.

After two years of operation, the Association's membership examined in their biennial conference their common needs and proposed future projects. In this conference, which was held on 12-14 December, 1978, in Hong Kong, they agreed with the Secretariat that the content and direction of the Association's activities must be embodied in a Five-Year Development Plan that will truly realize ACUCA's objectives and contain concrete measures for determining its progress. After incorporating some modifications, the Plan was approved in principle by the General Assembly.

In the said conference, the body also decided to invite as new members Meiji Gakuin University and Kuansei Gakuin University of Japan, Keimyung University of Korea, and Chung Yuan Christian College of Science and Technology of China. They arrived at the following consensus, which reiterated their Christian commitment:

1. The mission of Christian higher education is, in general, to heal the divisions which separate man from man and to unite all men in the community of service and fellowship;

2. This Christian mission impels us to train our students to assume the responsibility of developing the potentials of the underprivileged, the deprived, and the marginal poor;

3. By pursuing the best of human knowledge possible for the purpose of making it available and accessible for healing the wounds of mankind in the Asian context, we have been blessed with some successes, due more to the force of God's saving power rather than to our own human efforts;

4. Despite these successes, we are still confronted with problems that relate chiefly to finances and the need to maintain our Christian character, faced with the pressures of survival in a competitive and materialistic society.

In the business meeting that followed, Dr. Wilfrido Villacorta was re-appointed as Secretary-General, and the following members of the Executive Committee were elected for the term 1979-1980: Dr. Quintin Doromal (Philippines), President: Dr. Woo Choo Lee (Korea), Vice-President: Fr. Joseph Pittau, S. J. (Japan), Treasurer; Dr. Ko-Wang Mei (China), Dr. Sutarno (Indonesia), Dr S. W. Tam (Hong Kong), and Dr. Amnuay Tapingkae (Thailand) as Board Members.

praetorian^8

July 4th, 2007, 01:05 AM

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Chalk Gets Hit by the UAAP and NCAA Fever!

It's UAAP and NCAA season once again, and Chalk makes sure you're all prepped for it with its UAAP/NCAA special! This double cover issue gives you the lowdown on all you need to know this season, as the coaches and players themselves share us what to expect! Also, UAAP's most heated rivalry comes back with a vengeance! Kirk Long of ADMU and Simon Atkins of DLSU square off - as the Blue Eagles and Green Archers settle matters on court!

Meanwhile, NCAA champs San Beda Red Lions show no signs of going down, as they share why they'll do everything to keep their title!

But this issue's not just about this season's fierce court action, as basketball heroes Chris Tiu of ADMU, Woody Co of UP, JC Tiuseco of San Sebastian, Paolo Orbeta of CSB and more, drop by to share what they're looking for in a girl!

And as school's in full swing, we're giving you the dish on the hottest back to school fashion, modeled by equally hot campus heartthrobs! Learn how to show some school spirit, and still manage to look pretty on the courtside during games!

So, grab a copy of Chalk's latest issue, and be in the know this UAAP/NCAA season!

SugarFreak

July 4th, 2007, 12:34 PM

Monico eyes Polytechnic College for BACOLOD

Bacolod Rep. Monico Puentevella yesterday said he is looking at the possibility of establishing a state-of-the-art polytechnic/IT college in Bacolod City to meet the manpower requirement of Korean firms in the country.

Puentevella said he has invited Man-Hwan Park, country director of the Export-Import Bank of Korea, together with project consultant George Aquino, to visit the Don Carlos Hilado Memorial State Colleges in Brgys. Estefania and Alijis which currently has 7,000 students. He said the school produces 2,000 graduates every year which they hope to increase in order to meet the demands of Korean firms for additional skilled workers, once the project is realized. Puentevella said he will see the South Korean Ambassador to request for a feasibility study grant for the project that will be able to provide the graduates direct employment with some of the Korean businesses now established in the Philippines.

He said Hanjin Ship Building Corp. in Subic, the fourth biggest ship-building company in the world and one of the top business companies in the country, is now looking for skilled workers like carpenters, welders, electricians, maritime architect and engineers, among others,.

Puentevella said that in a few more years, Hanjin, which is a Korean firm, will employ between 20,000 to 30,000 people. cont'd (http://www.visayandailystar.com/2007/July/04/topstory8.htm)

tj_brewed

July 5th, 2007, 03:53 PM

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^^^ CEBU INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY CAMPUS

davaoeagle

July 6th, 2007, 02:33 AM

Brokenshire College
Transforming Evangelical Christian institution in Mindanao

HUMBLE BEGINNINGS

An awe-inspiring necessity for medical services in Davao City propelled the Board of Commissioners for Foreign Mission of the Congregational Churches in the United States of America, now the United Church Board for World Ministries (UCBWM), to send missionaries Rev. and Mrs. Robert Black to the Philippines. In 1908, the first medical clinic was set up at the bank of Bankerohan River along Magallanes Street in Davao City by Mrs. Mary Matthewson, an American Red Cross nurse, along with Dr. & Mrs. Charles Sibley, also missionaries of the UCBWM. The clinic later expanded and became the Davao Mission Hospital.

In 1926, a young and adventurous American medical physician by the name of Dr. Herbert Brokenshire administered the hospital until the outbreak of the World War II. The name Davao Mission Hospital was then changed to Brokenshire Memorial Hospital in honor of Dr. Brokenshire for his 15 years of indefatigable dedication. In 1954, the Brokenshire School of Nursing was established as another product of the American missionaries’ incessant commitment of providing health care to the Davao community. In July 16, 1957, the school was registered as a separate non-stock, non-profit educational corporation related with the United Church of Christ in the Philippines (UCCP).

The Brokenshire School of Nursing continued its growth as more students enrolled in the Graduate Nursing (GN) course. In 1957, the College produced 23 students as its first batch of graduates. In 1965, the hospital and the school were stressed with fire and the following year they were transferred to its present site at Madapo, Davao City with a five hectare area allotted for the school. In 1978, the Board of Trustees decided to expand its program from the GN to Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN). It then changed its name to Brokenshire College. The first batch of graduates under the BSN program was in 1981.

In response to the needs of the members of the UCCP community in Davao City, the High School program was added in 1984. The first high school graduating class was in 1987. It was on the same year that the Bachelor of Science in Early Childhood Education (BSECEd) was opened. In 1985, the Business Administration course was offered but due to the dissenting opinion in the change of school director, the school failed to apply for the Authority to Operate. The Preschool and Elementary programs were opened in 1989. In 1993, it re-opened its BSBA program together with the Bachelor of Science in Elementary Education (BEEd) and the Bachelor of Secondary Education (BSEd).

In 1997, the AB Psychology was converted to BS Psychology. The year saw the beginnings of the Bachelor of Science in Computer Science (BSCS) and the Bachelor of Science in Information Technology (BSIT) courses. The courses were in answer to the increasing demand for technology courses. The Pag-asa School of Theology was later merged with the curriculum of the college which offered Bachelor of Arts (AB) in Theology and Christian Education.

Likewise, in 1998, the Secondary curriculum was enhanced in the fields of Science, Mathematics and Technology which eventually led to the conversion of the high school into a Science High School.

While suffering some reverses in terms of student population during the school year 1997, the Academic Year 2002-2003 became a milestone for the college. An upsurge of enrolment that year in the BSN program was experienced as other courses gradually picked up.

PRESENT TIMES

The onset of globalization affected almost all aspects of human existence. Institutions of learning are not exempted from these phenomena. They cannot ignore emerging technologies, material, equipment and new ways of organizing to the delivery of services and marketing. Whether these institutions are profit or non-profit oriented, they wrestle with today’s environment in its never ending focus on quality, continuous improvement and customer satisfaction.

At present, Brokenshire College is ISO 9001:2000 certified. TUV SUD Phil., Inc., a certifying body, granted the certification last April of 2006. Having the ISO (International Organization for Standardization) certification, the college had passed the international standard requirement for a Quality Management System (QMS) and offers competitive edge to its students and graduates to be globally competitive. It's the first ISO-certified academic institution in Davao City, Brokenshire College sticks to its quality policy of providing value-oriented quality Christian education through continuous improvement and total involvement for customer satisfaction.

The global demand for nurses has been increasing over the years and this totally changed the course of the journey of Brokenshire College in the field of health care education. This led to the tremendous upsurge in the enrollment in the nursing program without negating the setback that was experienced in the past. The College thus, was able to recover from its losses. AY 1999-2000 witnessed a decrease in enrolment with only 68 students in the Nursing program. However, a comeback was to be seen in AY 2001-2002 with a 210% increase in student population and this trend continuous up to the present. Academic Year 2006-2007 welcomed a total student population of 4,962 with 3,930 enrolled in the Nursing program.

To be able to comply with ISO requirements, level of Accreditation, and to accommodate the increasing number of enrollees in the College of Nursing, additional buildings were constructed, state-of-the-art facilities were acquired, and the number of hospital affiliations were increased. Likewise, the College of Business Administration, Arts and Sciences, Education, Information Science and Theology (BASE-IST) are incessantly upgrading its curriculum to better serve the other academic needs of the college. Recently, the College started offering the Upward Mobility Program (UMP) which caters to the working class high school graduates who are employed as household help, drivers, janitors, and small scale entrepreneurs. UMP provides opportunity for these workers to obtain an undergraduate degree thru a specialized two-day (Friday evening class and whole Sunday class) academic program.

In response to President Gloria Arroyo’s advocacy thru the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) for the development of the Filipino youth, Brokenshire College is now offering a Ladderized Program in Hotel and Restaurant Management. The College also offers Medical Transcription (MT) program which is registered by the TESDA and with a four-month modular class approach. The program is also competence-based and students learn at their own pace.

The College is investing and keeping abreast with the latest technology with its computer-based Christian Education. It utilizes the latest technology in the teaching-learning process in all courses offered. It is globally acknowledged that learning no longer takes place only within the confines of the four walls of the classroom and that the teachers are no longer the sole sources of learning and information. The e-learning Method of Instruction is thus born. The campus is open 24 hours for online study and the students can have access anywhere even at home, in a friend’s house, or even inside the comfort of an internet café through CD-ROM. Through the e-board (electronic board), students simply answer questions electronically and in a minute or so, results can be ready for the use of the teachers and the students.

Now, the College envisions its eventual transformation into a university. The College sees itself as the leading learning and transforming Evangelical Christian Institution in Mindanao ten years from now. By then, its graduates are making a difference in the world with the values and the principles instilled by the college thru its host of competitive and robust administrators, faculty and staff whose capabilities are built through a consistent program for development.

FLAGSHIP COURSES

Brokenshire College is a pioneer in the field of nursing education in Davao City. It is internationally known for having produced competent nurses. its alumni have carved their names here and abroad. The College was granted Accreditation Level III for the Nursing Program under a team of accreditors from the Association of Christian Schools Colleges and Universities Accrediting Agency, Inc. (ACSCU-AAI). Brokenshire College is one of the nine schools accredited level III in the country. With competent faculty and clinical instructors, the college consistently maintains a passing rate above the national passing percentage. 1995 is considered the most fruitful year for the College as fourteen of its graduates made thei way to the top twenty of the Nurse Licensure Examination. The December 2005 NLE also showed its graduates bagging the 1st,6th and 7th places while the December 2006 result had its graduates occupying the 4th, 7th and 8th positions in the top ten.

A study entitled "High-Performing Teacher Education Institutions" that was conducted by Dr. Adriano A. Arcelo, President of AIG and Associate Researcher and Development Corporation and former President of the Fund for Assistance to Private Education (FAPE), showed that Brokenshire College was among the top performing schools and actually ranked 13th with a 76% passing rate among the 20 schools in the country with a cluster of 10 to 99 examinees for the Licensure Examination for Teachers (LET) administered by the Professional Regulations Commission (PRC) from 1996-1998. All courses, other than the Nursing program, are accredited Level II.

The College is unrelenting in its quest to be known not only as an excellent institution of the nursing profession but also in business, education, and information technology. (Rufa V. Luzoraga, MBA, Marketing/Public Relations Officer)

ritche

July 6th, 2007, 03:28 AM

Brokenshire is a sister school of Silliman...

kiretoce

July 6th, 2007, 07:29 AM

Silliman University notes growing foreign student population as CHED pushes for "Educational Tourism" (http://www.pia.gov.ph/?m=12&fi=p070705.htm&no=81&r=&y=&mo=)

The country’s potential as a premier alternative educational destination for students from foreign countries is already felt in the small yet vibrant academic environment in Dumaguete City.

The Commission on Higher Education (CHED) has recently announced its initiative to position the Philippines as a premier alternative educational destination where neighboring countries could send their overflow student populations.

CHED Chair Lito Puno has come up with what is termed as “education tourism” strategy, a program that will position the country as an alternative educational destination to China or Russia.

Dumaguete City is a prime example of how Philippine education is a promising factor in drawing in international students.

Touted as a university town, Dumaguete’s bustling academic environment has attracted several foreign students to pursue their education in the city, especially at Silliman University, the oldest American university in the country, which has lured a growing number of foreign students to study here.

SU currently has 251 foreign students from 19 countries enrolled in various courses for school year 2007 to 2008.

Of the total, 199 are enrolled in the college level and 52 in the School of Basic Education comprised of early childhood, elementary and high school levels.

Koreans top the number of foreign students on campus with 105, followed by Iranians, 49 and Americans, 44.

Other nationalities on campus include Indonesians, Germans, Tanzanians, Canadians, Japanese, and British, to name a few.

According to Mark Raygan E. Garcia, director of the SU Office of Information and Publication, majority of the Korean students are enrolled in business and language courses while Iranians are mostly taking up engineering and information technology studies.

Most of the American students are studying in the Nursing and Allied Health Sciences department.

The university’s Masters in Business Administration course have likewise attracted foreign graduate students.

Data from SU shows a steady rise in the university’s enrollment of international students. “The trend has been increasing. For example, at the college level, there were 123 foreign students enrolled in the 2002 to 2003 school year. And five years after, we now have 199 foreign students,” said Garcia.

Garcia attributes the trend to the university’s affordable yet high quality education. “The cost of education here is lower compared to the countries where our international students come from. Plus, with the university’s quality education, it is an investment for these students who after four years, get to earn a degree that make them competitive enough to land lucrative jobs abroad,” he explained.

The university likewise offers Filipino classes for foreign students in an effort to offer a holistic development for them, and help them break through the barriers of language and culture differences. “These classes are specially designed to cater to the needs of our international students, so they can learn the local language and culture as well,” added Garcia.

Garcia said the presence of foreign students in the university have benefited the city’s tourism industry. “It is benefiting not only the academic institution but the city as well as these foreign students have also other needs that only the larger community of Dumaguete can provide,” he said.

He added that for now, SU relies on tie-ups with foreign universities such as those under the student exchange programs, its consortia with universities in Asia and the United States, and by “word of mouth” in pulling in foreign students.

CHED’s ‘education tourism’ strategy has already earned the support of Malacañang after Puno discussed the program’s blueprint during a weekly program aired over government channel NBN-4.

Puno said the strategy complements the government’s tourist promotion program.

Press Secretary Ignacio Bunye explained that the country is an attractive alternative destination for Korean students because of three main factors: the short distance between Manila and Seoul, the affordability of Philippine education, and the Filipinos’ fluency in English.

The Philippine government and China’s Ministry of Education have signed recently a memorandum of agreement “allowing Chinese students who could not be accommodated in China’s universities to study in the Philippines.”

nicko

July 6th, 2007, 01:20 PM

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Written by Donna Ametyst R. Bernardo
Friday, 06 July 2007

MySilliman Globe SIM soon to be released

Sillimanians will now have their own customized Globe Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) card where students can conveniently access their tuition fee accounts and receive announcements of activities and news from Silliman University.

Student Organization and Activities Division (SOAD) Head Jose Mari Jonathan Antonio said, "The MySilliman SIM is a new product of Globe which is intended for students, parents, alumni, faculty, staff, and the rest of the Silliman community".

Aside from the services of a regular Globe sim card, the MySilliman SIM will also feature customized dowloadables like the Silliman logo and Silliman song, and updates from Sillman University administration, Student Government, and Council of Student Organizations.

"Through the SIM, we can disseminate information faster and we can reach out to the Silliman community in a more direct manner. We are outsourcing without having to spend on infrastructure and at the same time, the university will be earning profits on this venture," Antonio said.

To avail of the MySilliman SIM card, students will have to buy the sim, fill out a pre-registration form and present an identification card (ID) number, since the last four digits of the ID number will be the same with the last four digits of the mobile phone number.

The SIM will cost Php 99, while text and calls within the network will be at a cheaper rate at 75 centavos per text and 10 centavos per second for calls. However, the same rates apply for text and calls to other networks.

Globe will have a week-long launching of the product from July 25 to August. Stalls, where the product will be sold, will be put up in the different colleges in the university.

"We're still looking into the possibility of adding more features and downloadables to the sim. We're still deciding if we will include the students' grades in the downloadable information since grades are strictly confidential," Antonio said.

www.weeklysillimanian.net

Sinjin P.

July 7th, 2007, 02:53 AM

^ Wow! :shocked: Is that a "first" for a Philippine University? :?

Mithril Cloud

July 7th, 2007, 08:19 AM

The SIM card? Mapua already has its own Cardinal SIM two years ago, while La Salle had its Animo SIM last year, both are also provided by Globe.

SugarFreak

July 7th, 2007, 12:19 PM

UNIVERSITY OF SAINT LA SALLE (USLS)- BACOLOD

USLS Coliseum-The 3,780 square meters Coliseum. has an 8,000-person seating. capacity making it ideal for the out-of-town games of the PBA
as well as for major concerts, conventions and other big meetings
of civic and religious organizations.

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(Note: Sorry gid kay daw medyo nadugayan ang mga pics. Super busy gid me sa La Salle; prelim exams are coming. Anyway, here are some pics from USLS, both completed and constructing structures will be presented. I know, I don't really take good shots :ohno: Click on the thumbnails to enlarge. If you want to have them posted on another thread or site, please give proper credit, thanks!)

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University of St. La Salle
http://www.usls.edu.ph

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St. La Salle Coliseum (Front View)

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1) Events Notice Board of the Coliseum 2) Another Front View 3) Coliseum Lobby taken from the Balcony 4) Lasalliana Gallery (Coliseum Lobby) 5) Yet another Front View of the Coli 6) Seats and Bleachers (left side) 7) Lasalliana Gallery (taken by the Stingers' Foodcourt) 8) Taken during Freshmen Night 2007 (held at the Coli)

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Santuario de La Salle

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1) SDLS Entrance 2) Hallway 3) Commemorative Plaque 4) SDLS Halls A and B 5) Guest Lounge 6) SDLS Hall C 7) SDLS Meditation Park 8) SDLS Rooms

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Balay Kalinungan (other structures and buildings are posted below)

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1) College Plaza (1) 2) College Plaza (2) 3) The famous Wester Hall (one of La Salle's oldest buildings) 4) Cody Hall sign 5) Cody Hall 6) University Chapel (inside) 7) University Chapel facade 8) Football Field (taken by the Grandstand) 9) Tennis Courts 10) La Salle Language Center (yup, you guessed it; Koreans are tutored here daily :) 11) Business Office windows 12) Handumanan Grove (1) 13) Handuman Grove (2) 14) Coliseum Carpark (1) 15) Coliseum Carpark (2) (there are two other carparks: the one by Masson Hall and the other is by Balay Kalinungan, other parking lots are for Integrated School use) 16) Museo Negrense De La Salle (the only school-based museum in the region)

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University Corporate Center (other structures and buildings in construction are posted below)

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1) Extension of the St. Br. Benilde FSC Hall 2) New three-storey structure (I forgot the name) 3) Here's is Image 2 description 4) New St. Br. Mutien Marie Wiaux FSC Bldg. 5) First Floor of Mutien Marie Bldg. (alomst complete; it's a three or four-storey structure I heard) 6) Extension of the Solomon Bldg., next to the Graduate School Head Office

I'm sorry if ang iban nga structures of La Salle were not posted, mga barkada ko gadali na gid mapuli bi :ohno: . Anyway, I'll try to take more shots of Metro Bacolod next time, medyo hassle gid subong because of the rain. :)

ritche

July 7th, 2007, 03:16 PM

USLS has nice campus.

SugarFreak

July 9th, 2007, 09:46 AM

TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY OF THE PHILIPPINES IN THE VISAYAS
TALISAY CITY, METRO BACOLOD

BRIEF HISTORY OF VISAYAS TECHNICIAN INSTITUTE (http://forums.tupvians.com/index.php?showtopic=624)

(now Technological University of the Philippines-Visayas)

In December 1969, President Marcos issued an Executive Order creating
the Presidential Commission to Survey Philippine Education (PCSPE) for the purpose of analyzing and recommending ways to improve the performance of the Philippine Educational System. When the study revealed that the country was faced with the shortage of middle level manpower, the President issued Presidential Decree 6-A which called for, among other things, the creation of a special project unit to supervise, implement and evaluate the educational development programs.

The project unit created was the Educational Development Projects
Implementing Task Force (EDPITAF). The task force negotiated and signed Credit Agreement No. 349PH with the International Development Association and the World Bank as the funding institution for $12.7M which paved the way for the establishment of three TECHNICIAN INSTITUTES and ten Regional Manpower Training Centers in strategic locations in the country.

Under the INSTITUTES Project was the establishment of two Technician
Institutes, namely; Bacolod Technician Institute (which was later on renamed Visayas Technician Institute) for the Visayas, the Manila Technician Institute for Luzon; and the upgrading of the facilities and selected faculty of the Iligan Institute of Technology under the Mindanao State University for the Mindanao area.

The loan amount intended for the INSTITUTES Project was used to
construct the buildings and purchase the equipment of the three technician institutes. The original buildings of VTI cost P5.5M while the equipment was P7.2M.

Portion of the loan was also spent for the training of the Core Faculty of the
three institutes, including the cost of technical assistance provided by technical experts and their local counterparts.

The core faculty of the institutes was trained in Manila by a consortium of
schools headed by Don Bosco Technical College and a consortium of industries for about three years (from 1974 to 1977). It was this group of faculty together with the foreign and local technical experts who developed the original curriculum of the Technician Institutes.

Visayas Technician Institute opened its doors in June of 1977 with 196
students from the different provinces in the Visayas.

On December 28, 1978, the President issued Letter of Instruction No. 79
(LOI 79), directing the establishment of the National Polytechnic System (NPS) through the integration of state-supported institutions in the Philippines. The Technological University of the Philippines (formerly Philippine College of Arts and Trades) became the umbrella institution. Visayas Technician Institute came under the administrative supervision of the Technological University of the Philippines.

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TUP-VISAYAS has a new school extension at Sagay City, Negros Occidental

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jaywalker

July 9th, 2007, 10:48 PM

^^ Technological University of the Philippines-Visayas or simply known TUP-V is one of the top school in the Philippines for Mechanical Engineering.Thier students are always included in the list of topnotchers and good percentage of number passers in the Licensure Board Examination.

boju

July 11th, 2007, 11:04 AM

St. Benilde becomes 1st school in RP with 10-gigabit LAN

By Lawrence Casiraya
INQUIRER.net (http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakingnews/infotech/view_article.php?article_id=76057)
Last updated 03:57pm (Mla time) 07/11/2007

SINGAPORE -- College of St. Benilde (CSB), a unit under the De La Salle Philippines school system, has become the first school in the Philippines to have a 10-gigabit local area network (LAN) supporting the bandwidth requirements of its multimedia courses.

The 10-gigabit or 10G LAN, bought from network equipment supplier 3Com, covers CSB's newly erected School of Design and Arts (SDA), which opened this June and offers courses on fashion, theater and multimedia, among others.

The investment is meant to "future-proof" the school's network and satisfy bandwidth requirements due to animation and other design software used by students, said Ricson Singson Que, CSB's IT director.

The SDA currently has 1,000 students and Que expects this number to double next year.

Que will speak at 3Com's two-day Asia Pacific summit being held here starting Wednesday. He is representing CSB as a Philippine 3Com customer.

"We will not be investing in a bigger highway if we do not know already the type of applications we will run in it," Que said in an interview.

He did not mention exactly how much was invested in the network upgrade but said CSB allots about P10 million for IT and some P10 million more in operational expenses.

CSB will also be investing in security software from Tipping Point, a subsidiary of 3Com.

CSB started deploying its 10G LAN -- an upgrade from the previous 100Mbps network -- around the first quarter of this year. The network includes H3C switches, which resulted from the merger between 3Com and Chinese equipment maker Huawei Technologies.

The two companies formed a joint venture Huawei-3Com or H3C in 2003, the latter acquiring a controlling stake for about $190 million. 3Com acquired the remaining stake from Huawei earlier this year for $882 million.

ritche

July 17th, 2007, 08:59 AM

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A closer look at the MySilliman Globe customized SIM

ritche

July 17th, 2007, 09:00 AM

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Students playing at the Silliman East Quadrangle, with the Silliman Portal and Portal West building on the background

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The whole Silliman campus is now wifi accessible via Globe broadband

sugbuanon

July 17th, 2007, 09:17 AM

finally we're done making the scale model..

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usc law & business school [now working on the 2nd floor]

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proposed 13-storey usc school hotel

university of san carlos: cebu city

demented_pigeon

July 17th, 2007, 05:27 PM

may atenista ba dito? papost naman ng picture ng leong hall at 2 months advance yung construction niya...

davaoeagle

July 17th, 2007, 06:37 PM

American Studies Resource Center
Ateneo de Davao University

HISTORICAL OVERVIEW

The American Studies Resource Center(ASRC) was established in May 13, 1992 when Ateneo de Davao University Library received the donation of the library collections of the former USIS Davao. The Memorandum of Agreement was signed by the Public Affairs Officer Mr. Norton S. Smith, representing the U.S. Embassy, and Fr. Antonio S. Samson, SJ., President of the Ateneo de Davao University.

In 2003 the ASRC was closed for renovation. On the occasion of its reopening on February 4, 2004, a new MOA was signed by Mr. Ronald Post, Public Affairs Officer of the U.S. Embassy and Fr. Edmundo M. Martinez, S.J., President of the Ateneo de Davao University. The new MOA reflects the improved facilities provided by the university and the updated collection from the Public Affairs Section of the U.S. Embassy.

OBJECTIVES

To support the American Studies Program of the University.
To provide resources for research about United States, its history, life and culture, social and political processes.
To provide educational advising services to individuals who may plan to study in the U.S.

LOCATION

The ASRC is on the 2nd floor, Weiman Building adjacent to the Technical Section of the main library.

SERVICE HOURS

Mondays-Fridays 8:00am-5:00pm
Saturdays 8:00am-12:00nn
(Closed during Sundays and Holidays)

CLIENTELE

The center is open to the following:

Ateneo de Davao University Community
Neighboring institutions
ADDU Alumni
Businessmen and community leaders
Visiting users
RESOURCES & FACILITIES

The ASRC collection includes books, periodicals, CD-ROMs, videotapes, VCDs, DVDs, posters and publications of private and public American organizations and agencies.

The ASRC is airconditioned and has facilities for Internet access and for viewing videotapes, VCDs and DVDs.

SERVICES

REFERENCE/RESEARCH

Reference and research assistance is provided by a full-time professional librarian. The ASRC also accepts and responds to inquiries received by phone, fax, email and post.

BOOK LOANS

Borrowing privileges are granted only to the ADDU faculty students and staff.

Journals and magazines are for library premise use only.

Book loan Policy
Patron # of Books # of Days 1 sem Renewal
Full-time faculty 6 145 --
Part-time faculty 4 60 once
Staff 4 30 once
Graduate/Law & Undergraduate Students 4 14 once

EDUCATIONAL ADVISING

The ASRC has an Educational Advising Section, which offers the following services:

Provides information on standardized test such as GMAT, GRE and TOEFL, as well as registration bulletins.
Assists students in choosing universities and fields of study and in preparing the documentation required for admission to American colleges and universities.

ACCESS TO THE COLLECTION

The ASRC collection can be accessed on the Internet through Ateneo de Davao University Online Public Access Catalog (OPAC).
Books are organized according to the Dewey Decimal Classification System.

CONTROL PROCEDURES

Users should present their valid Identification Card upon entering the library.
ASRC users should deposit their bags in the depository counter before entering the library.
Upon exit, users are required to open and show the content of their folders, and other receptacles to the checker

COURTESY

Deactivate or put in silent mode electronic communication devices when entering the library.
Respect the right of each individual to study in a quiet atmosphere. While inside the ASRC area, please observe silence and refrain from eating, smoking and drinking

For more details, contact:

Ms. Leonisa P. Sales
ASRC Area Director & Director of Libraries

Ms. Cheryl L. Villarin
ASRC Reference Librarian

American Studies Resource Center
Ateneo de Davao University
E. Jacinto Street, Davao City
Phone:221-2411 loc 8229
Fax: 221-2411 loc. 8281

Email: library@magisx.addu.edu.ph

PHOTOS

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Student Advising Corner

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Reference

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Periodicals Sections

davaoeagle

July 18th, 2007, 04:41 AM

199 pass licensure examination for foresters

The Professional Regulation Commission (PRC) announced that 199 out of 504 passed the Forester Licensure Examination given by the Board for Foresters in the cities of Manila, Baguio, Davao, Legazpi, Tuguegarao, and Zamboanga this month.

The Top 10 examinees are:

Ozzy Boy Sairez Nicopior, University of the Philippines-Los Baños, 86.50; Philip Noel Apolinario Garrote, University of the Philippines-Los Baños, 85.40; Jomar Laborada Bravo, University of Mindanao-Davao City, and Charlyn Jakosalem Tarroja, University of Mindanao-Davao City, 84.85; Julius Alcaraz Casabal, University of the Philippines-Los Baños, 84.75; Fritzielyn Quinto Palmiery, University of the Philippines-Los Baños, 83.90;

Mark Jun Atchuela Rojo, Central Mindanao University, 83.80; Rosalie Geraillo Pasibe, University of the Philippines-Los Baños, 83.65; Ricky Macatangay Florindo, University of the PhilippinesLos Baños, 83.55; Andrew Abrejal Evangelista, University of the PhilippinesLos Baños, 83.50; and Erick Silverio Flores, University of the Philippines-Los Baños, 83.45.

On the Board for Foresters which gave the licensure examination are Monina T. Uriarte, chairman; and Jose A. Lorenzo and Gerardo T. Cabreros, members.

Registration for the issuance of Professional Identification Card (ID) and Certificate of Registration will start on Monday, July 23, but not later than Aug. 3.

The oathtaking ceremony of the examinees will be held before the board in Manila on Friday, Aug. 10, 1 p.m., at the PRC Auditorium, 5th floor, Annex Bldg., P. Paredes St., Sampaloc, Manila, and Davao City on Friday, Aug. 17.

Contact Forester Rogelio Abalos, president, Society of Filipino Foresters (SFF) Davao del Norte chapter, or Forester Fred Zarazate, FMS, DENR-Region 11, for more details.

Registration for membership with the SFF will start on July 23.

ritche

July 20th, 2007, 07:44 AM

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bald_kalbo

July 20th, 2007, 03:42 PM

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The Nicanor Reyes Hall
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Far Eastern University is a nucleus of rich academic and cultural experiences. It takes pride in its eminent founder who as educated in the United States and who cooperated with excellent academics to establish one of the famous universities in the country.

Dr. Nicanor Reyes, Sr. obtained his Ph.D. in Accountancy and M.A. in Business Administration from Columbia University after he had finished his Bachelor’s Degree in Commercial Science in 1917 from New York University and AB from UP in 1915. he had served as the chair of the Department of Economics of the University of the Philippines before he established his own school.

The name Far Eastern University was coined following the fusion of two schools, the Institute of Accountancy founded in 1928 by Dr. Nicanor Reyes, Sr. and the Far Eastern College established by Nicanor Maronilla-Seva, Fransisco M. Africa, Pedro Cortez, Salvador Unson, and Vicente Fabilla in 1919.

The Institute of Accountancy initiated a three-year, non-degree program as a springboard before offering courses in business administration, economics, and banking and finance. It was renamed the Institute of Accounts, Business and Finance (IABF) after its founding. Classes were held at the Masonic Temple on Escolta using three rooms but later transferred to more spacious quarters in the Fajardo Building on Avenida in 1930-1931.

When Dr. Reyes had gained the controlling stock of the Far Eastern College which primarily offered liberal arts courses, he decided to merge it with IABF. On November 5, 1933, he became the first president of what is now known as the Far Eastern University situated at the cigarette factory on the corner of Azcarraga (now Claro M. Recto Avenue) and M. Lorenzo (now Quezon Boulevard) streets.

He retained IABF as one of its colleges, or Institutes, and incorporated the Institute of Arts and Sciences (IAS). Fransisco M. Africa became the first dean of IAS with Clemente Uson being his IABF counterpart. Established in the same year were the Institute of Education, the Boys High School, the Girls High School, and the Grade School.

Whet FEU has aspired for through the years was to attain not only quality education, but also quality environment. Dr. Reyes engaged an architect, Pablo Antonio, who was schooled in England, and who later became National Artist for Architecture, to translate, to translate architecturally his vision of a forward-looking and progressive university. Architect Antonio designed the main building along Quezon Boulevard, which now called Nicanor Reyes Hall and is considered a landmark building of the Art Deco style. The completion of the new and modern building in 1939 launched the five-year building program of Dr. Reyes. Two other buildings were erected in record time – the Girls High School (now called the FEU-East Asia College) and Boys High School (now called Law Building).

In 1934 the Institute of Law was founded, and two years later, the Institute of Technology, with Fransisco Santana, as its first dean. In April 1938, the FEU Junior College was opened in Lingayen, Pangasinan.

Other buildings were built on the four-hectare university campus, but the rapid expansion project was cut off by World War II. FEU buildings became the headquarters of the Japanese Imperial Military after burning all the University records, books, and facilities. Sadly, during the liberation of Manila, the retreating Japanese massacred Dr. Reyes and some members of his family. Before his death, Dr. Reyes had the satisfaction of hearing President Manuel L. Quezon’s remark after the latter’s visit to the campus:

“Dr. Reyes, I do not mind telling you that I think Far Eastern University is the best non-sectarian university the country today.”

The sad death of the founder did not stop FEU’s commitment to educations. The university was re-opened in October 1945 despite the use of most of its facilities by the American forces until their departure in May 1946, the post-liberation years saw the renaissance of FEU with its massive expansion of facilities aimed at meeting the demands of modern and relevant education in the country and the increasing student population.

After the founder’s leadership, FEU was still run by prominent educators as presidents – Dr. Hermenegildo B. Reyes, Jaime Hernandez, Dr. Fransisco Dalupan, Clemente Uson, Dr. Leoncio B. Monzon, Belen Enrile-Guitierrez, Dr. Vidal Tan, and Dr. Teodoro Evangelista.

It is to the credit of subsequent administrators of FEU that soon after the war, in 1949, Pablo Antonio was again commissioned to build the FEU Administration Building, which housed the famous FEU Auditorium and which Dr. Reyes had promised to the very successful pre-war Drama Department under Sarah Joaquin. It was the most modern and first centralized air-conditioned auditorium in the country, with a revolving stage to boot. The new auditorium became the “Cultural Center of the Philippines” during the 50’s and 60’s, and many artists performed there. For over 20 years, it was the venue for major cultural presentations like the operas La Traviata, Il Trovatore, and Carmen.

In 1950, the seven-story Science Building was erected. In July 1952, the Institute of Medicine was established, followed in June 1955 by the Institute of Nursing.

The university inaugurated the FEU Hospital on October 22, 1955, which served as the principal training hospital for students of the Institutes of Medicine and Nursing.

Other buildings erected were the Chapel, the seven-story Arts Building (AB), the two-story Home Economics Buildings, the seven-story New Technology Building (THB), and the eight-story Grade School Building (now Education Hall Building).

These facilities became the venues of instruction of the different institutes set up after the liberation. The Institute of Medicine eventually became a non-stock, non-profit educational foundation known as the FEU Dr. Nicanor Reyes Medical Foundation (NRMF) along with the School of Medical technology, the FEU Hospital and the Student Health Service Clinic on August 7, 1970. In 1957, the Institute of Graduate Studies took charge of offering graduate courses, hence allowing the other institutes to concentrate on the administration of undergraduate courses

The 1959, President Teodoro Evangelista articulated the University’s thrust for the 60’s – “Education for Culture” – a broader program to include arts and culture in the academic preparation of students to be well-rounded persons. Dean Alejandro R. Roces introduced the teaching of Humanities, together with Alfredo Roces, Jesus Q. Cruz, and Carmita Legarda. Dean Roces was a major force in many other pursuits of the University in the areas of arts and culture, including the commissioning of Fransisco “Botong” Fransisco to paint the Stations of the Cross at the Chapel and Piyesta ng Angono at the Administration Building, among others.

In July 1970, FEU founder’s eldest son, Nicanor Reyes, Jr., acted as the dean of the newly formed Institute of Architecture and Fine Arts. Eventually he became the University president from March 1971 until his death in 1982. he was succeeded by Dr. Belen E. Guitierrez as acting president.

FEU suffered the same plight experienced by other academic institutions in the country during the martial law regime. One of the consequences of dictatorship on student life was the cessation of The Advocate, the official student publication of the University. Demonstrations, anarchy and graffiti on all the walls of the University and the city were some of the tangible reactions of the studentry to the authorities.

After EDSA 1, a people power revolt, the situation normalized, particularly in the so-called “University Belt” – a university district of the city in which the disorder and chaos in the streets penetrated the campuses. Much had to be done by the new administration to achieve the standards of the founder – which was to have not only quality education but also quality environment. Dr. Josephine Cojuanco-Reyes, widow of Dr. Nicanor Reyes, Jr., assumed the presidency in 1987. FEU was at the center of a crowded area, but from the start, the quadrangle with buildings intelligently built only on the periphery made it possible to have an organized campus.

In 1989, Dr. Felixberto C. Sta. Maria was installed as the eighth president, together with Dr. Lourdes R. Montinolla, the only living scion of the founder, as the Chair of the Board of Trustees. Their tandem brought a renaissance to FEU with efforts to revitalize and preserve buildings and facilities with Art Deco Style. They also continued to revise and improve the curricula. Moreover, three of its units, - Institute of Arts and Sciences, Institute of Education, and the Institute of Accounts, Business, and Finance – attained accredited status.

After careful study of the technology program, the administration in 1992 decided to phase it out in favour of a computer technology program forged with the East Asia Computer Center, Inc. which offered degrees in computer science and certificate courses.

A cultural rebirth was also brought by the establishment of President’s Committee on Culture with its twice-a-month presentations of local and international artists at the historic FEU Auditorium. Modern stage productions necessitated the overhauling of the auditorium with state-of-the-art theatre facilities, including a wide screen and a powerful video and computer projector.

Dr. Sta. Maria retired after 60 years of service, and on July 15, 1995, an eminent public servant, academic and management expert from the Asian Institute of Management assumed the presidency. Dr. Edilberto C. De Jesus was formally appointed as the ninth president of FEU on March 9, 1996.

His leadership, anchored on the philosophy of Total Quality Management (TQM), centered on the sustained growth and development of the faculty, curricula, facilities, researches and outreach functions.

The University also forged with linkages with other developed academic institutions that provided of possible technology transfer and assistance for faculty development. At present, FEU strengthens its international linkages with the University of Oregon, University of Cincinnati, Eastern Mediterranean University, Turkey, Girne American University, North Cyprus, University of Incarnate Word, Texas, among others.

FEU has many firsts; the first to air-condition all classrooms, the first to put up a basketball court with the latest high-tech facilities including a maple wood floor, the first to set up an outdoor rubberized basketball court, among the first to set up electronic libraries. Almost all the buildings have been done up and different gardens around the campus provide refreshing greenery and serenity to students who seek a shelter from outside stress.

Dr. Reyes’ dream of a university included the emphasis of art and culture, aesthetics, and the best facilities the university could afford for a well-rounded education. FEU today takes pride in having numerous works of art by National Artists such as Vicente Manansala, Fransisco “Botong” Fransisco, and Fernando Amorsolo that grace its grounds and buildings.

UNESCO MARKER
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Art Deco details inside the Administration Bldg.
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One of four bas reliefs by the Italian sculptor Francesco R. Monti
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Admin Bldg. staircase details
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FEU-East Asia (formerly the Girls High School Bldg.)
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Admin Bldg.
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FEU Memorial Square - sculptures by Vicente Manansala
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The FEU Chapel was designed in the international style of the 50's era by prominent Philippine architect Felipe Mendoza.
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Inside the FEU Chapel. The paintings of the "Stations of the Cross" are by National Artist Carlos "Botong" Francisco
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Details of the Nicanor Reyes Hall
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The FEU Auditorium
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1949 mural by Antonio Dumlao at the 2nd floor lobby of the FEU Auditorium inside the Admin. Bldg.
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View from the Admin Bldg.
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FEU Admin Bldg. viewed at Nicanor Reyes Sr. St. (Morayta)
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special thanks to mr. ivan henares for the pics.
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le Reine

July 21st, 2007, 11:45 AM

^ang ganda! naalala ko yung meet namin ni ericd diyan. nakakatuwa yung elevator tsaka yung theater

WawaY[625]

July 22nd, 2007, 01:45 PM

better study at Central Philippine University or else....

7SVnWcMjzrg

alliele

July 23rd, 2007, 12:54 PM

oh wow! pictures from FEU - my Alma Mater! :)

weirdo

July 24th, 2007, 01:45 PM

i really love feu's campus. and lots of pretty students too.

Sizaryan

July 26th, 2007, 04:17 AM

Ateneo de Davao pics...
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ritche

July 26th, 2007, 12:07 PM

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praetorian^8

July 29th, 2007, 05:11 AM

Biography of the President - ADMU

Biography of the President

Father Nebres did his early studies in classics and philosophy, completing his A.B. in 1962 and his M.A. in 1963, both in Philosophy, at the Jesuit Scholasticate, Berchmans College in Cebu City, Philippines. He did his M.S. and Ph.D. in mathematics at Stanford University in California 1965-70. Since his return to the Philippines in 1970, his work has divided into three areas: teaching and development of mathematics and science in the Philippines and in Southeast Asia; administration in the university and in the Jesuit Order; and leadership in the socio-political concerns of the Philippines during the years of martial law and in the early years of democratic restoration. In the 1990s, he also became more involved in the business world, particularly in the relationships between universities and business and technology.

In mathematics and science, he was founding President of the Mathematical Society of the Philippines in 1972 and one of the founding officers of the Southeast Asian Mathematical Society (SEAMS) also in 1972. The SEAMS has continued activities among the Southeast Asian nations to support graduate programs, research and mathematics education. Father Nebres was President of the SEAMS 1977-78 during its period of consolidating its network.

Father Nebres was also one of the founders of the Consortium of the leading universities in Manila to develop Ph.D. programs in mathematics, physics and chemistry. The Consortium has succeeded in developing a critical mass of scientists in these areas, has developed extensive links with scientists abroad (particularly in Australia and Japan), and is now the core of a large network of schools in the Philippines (110 high schools, 30 colleges and universities) which are supported by the Philippines’ Department of Science and Technology as the leadership group for improving science and engineering education in the country.

From 1992 to 1998, he was Chairman of the Project Advisory Group for a World Bank- and OECF-financed Engineering and Science Education Project of the Philippine Department of Science and Technology. From 1994 to 1998, he directed a team for the Philippine Department of Education on the development of education plans to strengthen elementary and secondary education in the poorest provinces of the country. He has served as Chair of the Technical Panel on Science and Mathematics of the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) since its inception and also chairs the CHED Technical Working Group for faculty development.

In the social and political world, he worked to establish the Center for Community Services and the first conscientization and politicalization programs of the Ateneo de Manila in the 1970's. The students from these programs have become major contributors to social development in the Philippines. He also helped in the political programs of various parties and groups during the years of forming alternatives to the Marcos martial law regime. He was Provincial Superior of the Jesuits in the Philippines from 1983 to 1989 and during this period much of his work was to support and coordinate efforts on the part of the Church in the years prior to and immediately after the 1986 revolution which restored democracy.

In the administrative area, he was Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences of the Ateneo de Manila 1973 to 1980, Rector of the Loyola House of Studies 1980 to 1982, Provincial Superior of the Jesuits in the Philippines 1983 to 1989, President of Xavier University in Mindanao 1990 to 1993, and at present the President of the Ateneo de Manila University.

In the world of business and technology, he was on the Board of Directors of Metro Pacific Corporation from 1991 to 1998 and joined the Board of Directors of Philippine Long Distance Telephone Company in 1998.

He serves on the Board of Trustees of several universities and schools in the Philippines and two Jesuit universities in the U.S., Georgetown University and Regis University.

His main concerns apart from the normal duties of a University President are the strengthening of basic education and of science and technology in the Philippines.

In 1992, he received an Honorary Doctor of Laws from the University of the Philippines for his work in promoting science and technology in the country. Last October 2004, he received an Honorary Doctor of Science from De La Salle University for his work in science and science education. In 1999, he was inducted into the Alumni Hall of Fame of the Asian Activities Center of Stanford University “for his distinguished accomplishments and outstanding contributions to our community and society.”

nicko

July 29th, 2007, 03:52 PM

WEEKLY SILLIMANIAN
June 2007 | Vol. LXXX | No. 5
Written by Administrator
Thursday, 19 July 2007

SU Agri is No. 1 in Visayas
by Kimberly Daphne V. Gari

Silliman University tops all agriculture schools in the Visayas and ranks as the country's 4th best performing school, after the SU College of Agriculture (SUCA) posted a 50% passing rate in the licensure examination last July 4-6 held in Cebu City.

The national passing average is 34%.

Six of the 12 examinees passed the exam. The new agriculturists are Leo Constantino, Mark Eduard Ensong, Jerome Fetalvero, Angelo Gabriel Ho, Reynante Villacarlos, and Angelo Yparosa.

"The exam covers all the basics in [the field] of Agriculture. The one thing that made it quite difficult is because here [in SUCA] we are more [focused] on our specific specializations. We only took the basics in our early years," shared Ensong, a graduate of batch 2007.

"The style of the college is really the alternative approach where we [tend to] go deep on the specializations we chose," Ensong added.

However, SUCA Dean Santiago Utzurrum Jr. said that the problem lay in the 'knit picking of questions' for the exam. "We think that it doesn't measure the competence of the examinee," he said.

Additionally, Utzurrum revealed that the college is currently revising its curriculum as stated in its five-year development plan. However, he emphasized that this revision has "no relation to the results of the board exams."

Since the licensure examination's inception five years ago, SUCA has consistently placed within the top five schools nationwide.

The oath taking ceremony will be held on August 24 at the Manila Hotel.

Ydlar

August 3rd, 2007, 05:28 AM

DLSU-M

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ADMU

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jogavilz

August 5th, 2007, 08:00 AM

how much ang tuition and dorm sa ADMU?

animasola

August 5th, 2007, 11:33 AM

I'm not sure of the exact price... but the receipt totaled 90K++ (sophomore year), these include the Tuition, dorm and the extra fees.

The dorm costs 28,000 per semester less the electrical expenses. Depending on your appliances, it could reach 33,000 per semester.

demented_pigeon

August 6th, 2007, 02:39 AM

how much ang tuition and dorm sa ADMU?

my freaking tuition in admu this year cost me 55,000 pesos. add the fact that there will be another 6% increase next Academic year.

richard24

August 6th, 2007, 01:20 PM

my freaking tuition in admu this year cost me 55,000 pesos. add the fact that there will be another 6% increase next Academic year.

grabe., 55k na pala ateneo? swerte pala ako sa 500 per sem ko sa PUP., wala nga lang aircon classroom namin., chaka pangit na buildings namin., :) dami pang abnoy dun., hehehe..,

animasola

August 6th, 2007, 04:21 PM

grabe., 55k na pala ateneo? swerte pala ako sa 500 per sem ko sa PUP., wala nga lang aircon classroom namin., chaka pangit na buildings namin., :) dami pang abnoy dun., hehehe..,

Not all of the classrooms in the Ateneo are air-conditioned, konti lng. And what makes it worse are the damn extra fees! NSTP, Lab, Library, Internet and more! That would be an additional 15-20K, hindi pa sagot ang transportation for NSTP. :bash:

I'll try to take pics of our school this Sunday. :)

davaoeagle

August 6th, 2007, 08:01 PM

AdDU Grade School Photos (Courtesy of Dave Salise).

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ritche

August 9th, 2007, 03:22 AM

These events are mainly happening in Silliman U:

definitely, dumaguete is not just about great sand, sea, sand, universities, wi-fi, shopping, bpo centers, beautiful parks, coffee shops and whatnot.. dumaguete has more to that than meets the eye.. dumaguete for sure is not short of rich history, culture and sophistication and that what makes dumaguete distinct from other cities.. as what Mr Casocot said in his blog and i quote, "what sets apart Dumaguete from the rest of the country is its sense of culture. (Tagabukid we may be, but we are high-class tagabukids nevertheless.)..:)

this first half of the year, dumaguete welcomes yet another cultural renaissance.. dumzville's first cultural season of 2007-2008..
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GRACE NONO feat. SU Kahayag Dance Troupe
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ROMANTIC Piano Concerto Journey
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MICHAEL DAPDAP in Concert
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SILLIMAN PERFORMS.. Tunay na Ligaya
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MANILA SYMPHONy ORCHESTRA
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From the famous author of THE VAGINA MONOLOGUES comes another show entitled THE GOOD BODY
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next season, lets all watch out for the theatrical play of THE FIDDLER ON THE ROOF, including Tanghalang Pilipino's Geegee at Waterina and Welcome to Intelstar..

Originally posted by Nicko

ritche

August 9th, 2007, 03:25 AM

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ritche

August 9th, 2007, 03:38 AM

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Just before a review class, these ladies are chitchatting in one of the academic halls of Silliman.

shyaman

August 9th, 2007, 02:45 PM

;14388649']better study at Central Philippine University or else....

7SVnWcMjzrg

That was so funny boyet. :lol: Benjo did it again.

demented_pigeon

August 9th, 2007, 05:05 PM

Not all of the classrooms in the Ateneo are air-conditioned, konti lng. And what makes it worse are the damn extra fees! NSTP, Lab, Library, Internet and more! That would be an additional 15-20K, hindi pa sagot ang transportation for NSTP. :bash:

I'll try to take pics of our school this Sunday. :)

tsong kung aircon lahat ng room sa ateneo, doble babayaran natin dun. kung gusto mo bawiin yung binayad mo, magcomputer ka sa RSF ng 5 oras straight. diba may athletics fee pa? o gamitin mo yung weights room after 4:30 daily. Kumuha ka lagi ng kopya ng matanglawin, heights, at guidon dahil binabayaran mo rin yun.

Miguel

August 9th, 2007, 05:07 PM

LUCE AUDITORIUM
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The Luce Auditorium in Silliman University is hailed by international and local artists as one of best auditoriums of the country and a counterpart to the Cultural Center of the Philippines. This air-conditioned edifice, with a 923-seating capacity, was inaugurated on October 6, 1974. The auditorium is known as the most modern and sophisticated infrastructure for the performing arts outside Metro Manila and is noted for its impressive acoustics. Foreign and local artists regularly play here contributing to the holistic education of the students and exposing them to different genres and music and art appreciation. Donated by Henry Luce, owner of TIME Magazine, to Silliman University and named after his late wife, Claire Isabel.

According to Henry Luce on the February 20, 2000 issue of New York Times, "Many people say that the Claire Isabel McGill Luce Auditorium (named for my late wife) at Silliman University is the best performance space in the Philippines outside of Manila." link (http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?sec=travel&res=9F07E0DD1531F933A15751C0A9669C8B63)

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Some performances for this semester and on which season passes are honored. (just some additions on ritche's earlier post)

http://www.geocities.com/su_culturalaffairs/poster_gracenono.GIF

JULY 20

Grace Nono and the Kahayag Dance Troupe in 'Sangbuhay

Philippine roots artist Grace Nono performs her signature indigenous sound which has made her an icon of the local alternative rock subculture. Her brand of music—which is completely at odds with most of the country’s American-leaning pop music—offers something different for the mainstream. Her combination of Filipino and Western arrangements make her a unique and vital artist. She performs together with the Silliman University Kahayag Dance Troupe, with choreophraphy by Ronnie Mirabueno inspired by her style of world music. This concert is produced in cooperation with SinagTala.

http://www.geocities.com/su_culturalaffairs/poster_santamaria.GIF

JULY 31

Ingrid Sala Santamaria and Reynaldo G. Reyes in Romantic Piano Journey

Pianists and music pedagogues Reynaldo G. Reyes and Ingrid Sala Santamaria embark on their 14th Romantic Piano Concerto Journey Tour with this concert as highlight. The tour is a 2-piano educational presentation focusing on the music of the Romantic Period (1800-1900). Their repertoire includes many of the era’s representative composers such as Beethoven, Brahms, Chopin, Grieg, Liszt,Mendelssohn, MacDowell, Rachmaninoff, Schumann, Saint Saens, and Tchaikovsky. Works by Filipino composers Buencamino and Santiago are included.

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AUGUST 1

Michael Dadap in Mostly Pinoy: Serenades for the Guitar

The acclaimed New York-based classical guitarist, composer, and conductor comes home to Silliman to gives a special concert.

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AUGUST 25

Silliman Performs in Tunay na Ligaya

For its Founders Day cultural highlight, Silliman University gathers some of its best soloists and musical performing groups to pay tribute to the best songs by some of the country’s renowned composers, from Ryan Cayabyab to George Canseco to Willy Cruz to Ogie Alcasid. A veritable parade of the best in Original Pilipino Music, the concert is meant as an exploration of the Filipino’s musical heart and soul. The musical direction is by Elizabeth Susan Vista-Suarez.

http://www.geocities.com/su_culturalaffairs/poster_mso.GIF

SEPTEMBER 7 AND 8

The Manila Symphony Orchestra In Concert

The Manila Symphony Orchestra is the oldest symphony orchestra in the Philippines. Born 75 years ago, the MSO holds a very rich history. It boasts of musician members whose talents have been nurtured through the Philippine Research for Developing Instrumental Soloists and the Manila Youth Symphony Orchestra. Despite its age and history, the MSO boasts of having the youngest professional musicans in the country. This bright group of young musicians are passionate about their craft and eager to share their various musical tastes—including modern contemporary arrangements like jazz, rock and pop and Broadway pieces.

http://www.geocities.com/su_culturalaffairs/poster_goodbody.GIF

SEPTEMBER 21

The New Voice Company in Eve Ensler's The Good Body

Botox, bulimia, breast implants: Eve Ensler, author of the international sensation The Vagina Monologues, is back, this time to rock our view of what it means to have a “good body.” It starts with Eve’s tortured relationship with her own “post-forties” stomach and her skirmishes with everything from Ab Rollers to fad diets and fascistic trainers in an attempt get the “flabby badness” out. She is joined by the voices of women from L.A. to Kabul, whose obsessions are also laid bare: a young Latina candidly critiques her humiliating “spread,” a stubborn layer of fat that she calls “a second pair of thighs”; the wife of a plastic surgeon recounts being systematically reconstructed—inch by inch—by her “perfectionist” husband; and many others. Ultimately, these monologues become a personal wake-up call from Eve to love the “good bodies” we inhabit. This play is produced in cooperation with the New Voice Company.